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



  Hi,

Huh?  You can't just throw a "MODULE_VERSION()", and a module_init()
somewhere into the xen code to get this to happen?  Then all of your
configurable paramaters show up automagically.

No, I can't. Xen does not have modules. Xen loads and runs linux.

You can. Just look at a recent drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c, the module parameters specified there show up in /sys/module/blkback/parameters, no matter whenever the code was built statically into the kernel or as module (which curently doesn't work for blkback anyway ...).

Any read-only attributes can trivially be implemented that way. Simple writable stuff (balloon driver?) probably too, I don't know whenever a notify callback on parameter changes is possible though.

The current /proc files which are not simple attributes such as /proc/xen/{privcmd,xenbus} are a bit more tricky, not sure what the best approach for these is. privcmd returns a filehandle which is then used for ioctls (misc char dev maybe?). xenbus can be opened and (I think) read(2) on to listen for any xenbus activity, much like /proc/kmsg. Suggestions what to use here instead of procfs? Or just leave it there?

cheers,

  Gerd

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Gerd 'just married' Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.

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