On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 21:52 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Haren Myneni <ha...@linux.ibm.com> writes: > > On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 14:57 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > Excerpts from Haren Myneni's message of May 21, 2021 7:42 pm: > > > > Changes to export the following NXGZIP capabilities through > > > > sysfs: > > > > > > > > /sys/devices/vio/ibm,compression-v1/NxGzCaps: > > > > > > Where's the horrible camel case name coming from? PowerVM? > > > > Yes, pHyp provides the capabalities string. > > > > Capability Description Descriptor Value Descriptor ascii Value > > Overall NX Capabilities 0x4E78204361707320 “Nx Caps ” > > NX GZIP Capabilities 0x4E78477A43617073 “NxGzCaps” > > That doesn't mean we have to use that name in sysfs though. In fact > we > couldn't use the "Nx Caps " name, because it contains spaces. > > And we don't have to squeeze our name into 8 bytes, so it can be less > ugly. > > Like "nx_gzip_capabilities"?
Thanks for your comments. 'NX Caps " provides the all available features in the hypervisor (only NX GZIP caps is supported right now) and we export information for the specific feature via sysfs. I will change it to "nx_gzip_caps" Thanks Haren > > cheers
