Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756059AbYGHXHT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:07:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbYGHXHH (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:07:07 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:59209 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752638AbYGHXHG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:07:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:34:17 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Altobelli, David" Cc: Pavel Machek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver Message-ID: <20080708233417.6fff4672@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20080623160052.GA7616@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080627191458.GA10872@ucw.cz> <20080707160658.GB1794@elf.ucw.cz> <20080708072152.GD1761@elf.ucw.cz> <20080708073818.GA14245@elf.ucw.cz> <20080708215002.GA18195@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 24 > Unfortunately, I don't believe that I can. We reviewed this internally, > and the question of documentation was raised. The hardware teams did > not approve disseminating the ABI. To be clear, we understand what we Well I suggest that when you've sorted out the internal politics in HP *then* you resubmit the driver code with more info. > > We are not _that_ extreme. Yes, keep stuff in userspace is important, > > but "hide hardware differences" is more important goal. > > That seems like a larger question/goal. Giving users some consistent > interfaces to do stuff would be nice, but I'd really like to handle this > driver on its own. We need to sort out the interface to merge a set of drivers and produce a common sensible interface that exposes commonality properly. It's rather hard to do that when you won't provide any relevant information. Alan -- 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/