linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 5/8] x86/platform/uv: Add UV Hubbed/Hubless Proc FS Files

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Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:04:56 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>,
        Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@....com>,
        Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>,
        Justin Ernst <justin.ernst@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/8] x86/platform/uv: Add UV Hubbed/Hubless Proc FS
 Files


* Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com> wrote:

> @@ -1596,7 +1687,7 @@ static void __init uv_system_init_hub(vo
>  	uv_nmi_setup();
>  	uv_cpu_init();
>  	uv_scir_register_cpu_notifier();
> -	proc_mkdir("sgi_uv", NULL);
> +	uv_setup_proc_files(0);

This slipped through previously: platform drivers have absolutely no 
business mucking in /proc.

Please describe the hardware via sysfs as pretty much everyone else does.

Thanks,

	Ingo