>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'll try to reach out however I'm not sure there is any. > >> >> 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". /sys/bus/vsmp/boards/ or /sys/bus/vsmp/device/board#? > >> 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 I'd rather have all the info under one place than in multiple places if possible. is seams more logical to me Eial