On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 12:56:29PM +0000, Czerwacki, Eial wrote: > >And aren't there others at your company that can help you with this? > afaik, there is not expert on kernel in the company. > there are some workers that have experience in kernel development but they are from our team SAP is a big company, I think you should seek them out if you are wanting to add new subsystems to the kernel to get their help as doing this is not a trivial task. > >> I'd prefer not adding complex code to the utils which need to traverse the sysfs tree to collect the right data > > > >for device in $(ls /sys/bus/vsmp/device/); do > now I understand! > that is what I was missing. > so inside /sys/bus/vsmp/device/ I can find the following tree? > 1 > 2 > 3 > ... > n > ? Yes, or how ever you want to name these "boards". > so I can create entries in /sys/hypervisor/vsmp for the global info Yes. > and link /sys/bus/vsmp/device/ to /sys/hypervisor/vsmp/boards? No symlink needed at all, they are independent things, right? What would require such a symlink? thanks, greg k-h