linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/DOE: Expose the DOE protocols via sysfs

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Date:   Fri, 4 Aug 2023 18:05:42 +0200
From:   Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To:     Alistair Francis <alistair23@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
        christian.koenig@....com, kch@...dia.com, logang@...tatee.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/DOE: Expose the DOE protocols via sysfs

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 11:17:59AM -0400, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 6:52???PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de> wrote:
> > I kind of like the approach of exposing a list which can be grep'ed,
> > even though it may go against the rule of having just one datum per
> > attribute.  I'd prefer a representation that's human-readable though,
> > e.g. "0001:01" for CMA-SPDM.
> 
> Yeah, it's my preferred method as well, but it's not going to be
> accepted upstream

How about procfs instead of sysfs?

No "single datum per file" rule over there.
PCI content goes into /proc/bus/pci/.
Already used by lspci to access config space.

Thanks,

Lukas