linux-kernel - Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number on SGI UV

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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:54:50 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Subject: Re: x86 BIOS interface for partitioning and system serial number
	on SGI UV

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
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