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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HP iLO driver
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:13:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213301632.17870.75.camel@violet.holtmann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48516CF2.106@zytor.com>

Hi Peter,

> > 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?

this is udev's job.

Regards

Marcel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 18:23 [PATCH] HP iLO driver David Altobelli
2008-06-12 18:34 ` 2.6.26-rc5: CFI: Found no ck804xrom @ffc00000 device at location zero John Stoffel
2008-06-12 20:25   ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-12 20:25     ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-13  2:51     ` John Stoffel
2008-06-13  2:51       ` John Stoffel
2008-06-13 19:39     ` John Stoffel
2008-06-13 19:39       ` John Stoffel
2008-06-12 18:37 ` [PATCH] HP iLO driver H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-12 19:37   ` Altobelli, David
2008-06-12 21:05     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-13  8:30       ` Michael Tokarev
2008-06-13 13:54         ` Altobelli, David
2008-06-12 20:13   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-06-12 21:06     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-12 19:04 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-06-12 20:16   ` Altobelli, David
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-16 14:07 David Altobelli
2008-07-01  6:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-01 21:01   ` Altobelli, David

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