Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756900AbYGGRAc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:00:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754040AbYGGRAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:00:21 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:52042 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754632AbYGGRAU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:00:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:06:58 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Altobelli, David" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Message-ID: <20080707160658.GB1794@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080623160052.GA7616@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080627191458.GA10872@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 27 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. Ok, I guess we should have documentation "what does it do" and "what protocol does it speak" before we can think about merging. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/