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Subject: Re: WBEM and WMI
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Simoneaux, Jill" <jill.simoneaux@intel.com>
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 22:54, Simoneaux, Jill wrote:
> Are there any plans for incorporating WBEM into the kernel??

Why would it need to be in the kernel ? We already handle things like DMI
table scanning almost entirely in user space (we just touch it in kernel
at boot to look for hardware signatures indicating problems)

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