Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759957AbYFLTjA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:39:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754631AbYFLTiv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:38:51 -0400 Received: from g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.46]:48689 "EHLO g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754603AbYFLTiu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:38:50 -0400 From: "Altobelli, David" To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:37:59 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH] HP iLO driver Thread-Topic: [PATCH] HP iLO driver Thread-Index: AcjMu2uVHUekpfHuQQi8CZefLtSH3wABReGg Message-ID: References: <20080612182308.GA1091@ldl.fc.hp.com> <48516CF2.106@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48516CF2.106@zytor.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 20 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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? Yes, that would be more clear. The code is currently defined to a maximum of 1 hardware device, but this could change, and the dev path should probably reflect that. How do you feel about /dev/hpiloX/ccbN, where X is 0, 1, ... Num_Devices-1? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/