On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:28:43 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 02 June 2011, Scott Wood wrote: > > I wanted to have the hypervisor take an update dtb (we already have special > > meta-properties for things like deletion as part of the hv config > > mechanism). But others on the project wanted to keep it simple, and so > > get/set property it was. :-/ > > > > It's unlikely to change at this point without a real need. > > > > As for a filesystem interface, it's not a good match either. > > You can't iterate over anything to read out the full tree from the hv. > > kexec iterates over /proc/device-tree to create a dts blob. That's irrelevant, because we're not talking about that device tree. We're talking about the device tree of another hypervisor guest. > > You can't delete anything. > > rm, rmdir > > > You can't create empty nodes. > > mkdir I know how to operate a filesystem. You can't do these operations *on another guest's device tree through the hv interface*. > > There would still be other ioctls needed for starting/stopping the > > partition, etc. > > Right, although you could model them as a file interface as well. > KVMfs is one example doing that. And what would be the benefit of this major restructuring and added complexity? -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
