Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:08:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver |
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On Tue 2008-07-08 22:19:18, Altobelli, David wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Could you provide the list of commands (at least) so we can be more > > concrete? > > Unfortunately, I don't believe that I can. We reviewed this internally, > and the question of documentation was raised. The hardware teams
You could at least provide list of high-level functionality.
> > (I assume management processors have pretty similar functionality > > accross vendors, right?) > > I can't speak for other vendors.
And neither can they speak, because you did not tell us what the iLO does.
> >> It seems much cleaner to keep the kernel interface simple and opaque > >> (ie read/write), and handle the details of the commands in user > >> space. From my limited understanding, I thought that was a common > >> goal here: move what you can to userspace. > > > > We are not _that_ extreme. Yes, keep stuff in userspace is important, > > but "hide hardware differences" is more important goal. > > That seems like a larger question/goal. Giving users some consistent > interfaces to do stuff would be nice, but I'd really like to handle this > driver on its own.
This driver can't be handled on its own, that would lead to a mess in future. Sorry. We need more info here. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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