[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when needed

To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor.
A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set
by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen).

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/hypervisor.c b/drivers/base/hypervisor.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0c85e9d6a44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/base/hypervisor.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * hypervisor.c - /sys/hypervisor subsystem.
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPLv2
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kobject.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
+#include "base.h"
+
+decl_subsys(hypervisor, NULL, NULL);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hypervisor_subsys);
+
+int __init hypervisor_init(void)
+{
+	return subsystem_register(&hypervisor_subsys);
+}