From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com
Cc: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Douglas_Warzecha@Dell.com, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:23:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050816232330.GA30540@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4277B1B44843BA48B0173B5B0A0DED43528192@ausx3mps301.aus.amer.dell.com>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:11:13PM -0500, Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com wrote:
>
> The main use of this driver by libsmbios will be to set BIOS F2
> options. Based on your feedback, I will _NOT_ be implementing any
> fan/sensor functionality in libsmbios, but will work with the lmsensors
> guys to do this instead. I only originally mentioned it because I
> thought it would be useful. My eyes have now been opened as to the best
> way to do this, and we will do it that way.
Ok, sounds good.
Hm, what about my code comments, they seem to have been lost in the
noise...
> And just to re-iterate one more time, we can already directly hook into
> hardware from userspace without any kernel auditing. We are just trying
> to set this out on the table for everybody to see.
So, this whole driver is not needed at all? It can all be done from
userspace? If so, then this shouldn't be added to the kernel tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-16 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-15 22:58 [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support Michael_E_Brown
2005-08-16 1:29 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-16 3:10 ` Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 5:59 ` Nathan Lutchansky
2005-08-16 8:16 ` Greg KH
2005-08-16 13:34 ` Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 20:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-16 20:37 ` Greg KH
2005-08-16 23:11 ` Michael_E_Brown
2005-08-16 23:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
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[not found] ` <DEFA2736-585A-4F84-9262-C3EB53E8E2A0@mac.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1124161828.10755.87.camel@soltek.michaels-house.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20050816081622.GA22625@kroah.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1124199265.10755.310.camel@soltek.michaels-house.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20050816203706.GA27198@kroah.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <4277B1B44843BA48B0173B5B0A0DED43528192@ausx3mps301.aus.amer.dell.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-17 0:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-17 0:41 ` Michael E Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-16 23:47 Michael_E_Brown
2005-08-17 5:33 ` Matt Domsch
2005-08-17 7:32 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-16 5:19 Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 5:35 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-16 5:50 ` Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 4:58 Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 5:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-08-16 6:10 ` Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 6:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-08-16 12:15 ` Andrey Panin
2005-08-16 4:09 Michael E Brown
2005-08-16 5:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-08-16 5:30 ` Michael E Brown
2005-08-15 20:05 Doug Warzecha
2005-08-15 20:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-15 23:38 ` Doug Warzecha
2005-08-16 1:44 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-16 2:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-08-16 4:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-16 4:55 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-16 5:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-16 5:52 ` Greg KH
2005-08-17 0:02 ` Doug Warzecha
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