Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758167AbYGFUFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:05:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754376AbYGFUF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:05:26 -0400 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:28792 "EHLO g4t0015.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754109AbYGFUFZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:05:25 -0400 From: "Altobelli, David" To: Pavel Machek CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:03:10 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Thread-Topic: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Thread-Index: Acjfdz2Ng7JNl8UnRAKb5giIqGnH9wAKmmvA Message-ID: References: <20080623160052.GA7616@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080627191458.GA10872@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080627191458.GA10872@ucw.cz> 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 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 25 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> 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/dXccbN), and use this to >> send/receive queries. > > What kind of queries? Is there documentation somewhere? Generally, it can get data out of the management processor - things like basic iLO configuration (users, nic, etc), handle SNMP traffic, flashing iLO, and some others. Unfortunately, there isn't yet any available documenation. > If it can read temperature, it should hook itself into hwmon > framework. Can it? What can it do? It can't do temperature. -- 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/