Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] sysfs support for xen linux

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My impression is was that sysfs files are mostly meant to be very simple 
get/set attributes and not have magic properties like the privcmd file - do 
any other sysfs files even support ioctls().

Also, for things like privcmd() which are used to perform operations, isn't it 
cleanest to make them a character device than a proc file?

$0.02,
Mark

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 16:12, Mike D. Day wrote:
> On 5:21 AM Keir Fraser wrote:
> > Well, here's a question, and I really don't know the answer: It of
> > course makes sense that the kernel maintainers want drivers to
> > install themselves under /sys, and fit in with the whole kobject and
> > hotplug infrastructure. But, for a few odds-and-ends special files
> > that don't really relate to a device, is /proc also out of bounds
> > these days? Seems to me that the kernel proc interfaces were designed
> > to have a few random files thrown at them, in a way that the sysfs
> > interfaces aren't. If the argument is really that random special
> > files are a bad idea, that would continue to hold regardless of
> > whether we move e.g., /proc/xen/privcmd to /sys.
>
> I think that /sys is clearly the right place to put information about
> Xen, including version, domains and domain info, and perhaps info about
> xenstore. This is according to feedback received when I submitted my
> first (braindead) patch moving /proc/xen to /proc/sys/xen.
>
> Still I agree that we need input from lkml and am going to cross-post an
>   RFC so we can move forward.
>
> regards,
>
> Mike

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