Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11.09.19 13:54, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 11.09.2019 13:29, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > Second, is xenfs really the best name here?  It is ambiguous with the
> > > still-essential (even though it really needs to disappear) Linux
> > > filesystem by the name xenfs.
> > Yes, I'm aware of that ambiguity. I'm absolutely in favor of finding a
> > better name.
> >
> > Maybe xensysfs?
> Or just xensys (albeit that's likely getting ambiguous)? I'm
> not fully convinced calling this a file system is a good idea.
> Windows' name-value pair store is called registry, for
> example, despite it also resembling a file system to a certain
> degree.
"Registry" doesn't seem correct regarding the potential dynamically
generated entries.

And with the idea to "mount" it in the dom0 kernel's sysfs I think
xensysfs (or xenhypfs?) seems appropriate.


Juergen

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