From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755124AbYHED5X (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:57:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752737AbYHED5O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:57:14 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37511 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752688AbYHED5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:57:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:54:50 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Russ Anderson , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner Subject: Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number on SGI UV Message-ID: <20080805035450.GA11810@kroah.com> References: <20080731195753.GB25715@sgi.com> <48934926.2010200@zytor.com> <20080804221951.GA252105@sgi.com> <4897A5FE.9070703@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4897A5FE.9070703@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:59:42PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Russ Anderson wrote: >>> This really seems more that it should belong in sysfs -- >>> /sys/class/firmware presumably. >> /proc/sgi_uv already exists, similar to /proc/sgi_sn on Itanium systems. >> Would it be /sys/class/firmware? Reading Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt >> seems to indicate somewhere under /sys/devices, such as >> /sys/devices/system/, >> but I may be wrong. > > /sys/class/firmware is usually where firmware-related things end up, but > gregkh is the authority on sysfs organization. /sys/class/firmware has a few users, but perhaps you are thinking of /sys/firmware instead? That's probably the better place for something that is not using the firmware class itself. thanks, greg k-h