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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:37:38 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] HP iLO driver
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David Altobelli wrote:
> A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
> programs to query the management processor.  Programs can open a channel
> to the device (/dev/hpilo_ccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.  
> The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
> be shared between processes.  This driver will replace various packages
> HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.

Wouldn't /dev/hpilo/ccbN be a more appropriate namespace?

	-hpa
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