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

To: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:19:46 +0100
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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:17 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote:
> The included patch provides some sysfs helper routines so that xen 
> domain kernel processes can easily attributes to sysfs. The intent is 
> that any kernel process can add an attribute under /sys/xen just as 
> easily as adding a file under /proc. In other words, without using the 
> driver core to create a subsystem, dealing with kobjects and ksets, etc.


eh... WHY ???

so that sys gets just as much of a mess as proc already is, so that
there are 2 messes????? 



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