Re: Class device namespaces

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Doug,

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:39:29 -0500, Doug Warzecha wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:10:20AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:23:30 -0500, Michael Brown wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > > > The question was: any change to _which_ paths exactly? Sysfs often
> > > > offers several ways to reach the same object, and it matters to know
> > > > which need to be preserved and which can change.
> > > >
> > > > const char *rbu_v2_fw_data_file = "/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data";
> > > > const char *rbu_v2_fw_load_file = "/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading";
> > > > const char *rbu_v2_img_type_file = "/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type";
> > > > const char *rbu_v2_pkt_size_file = "/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size";
> > > >
> > > > I guess that noawadays v2 applies, so the only path which needs to be
> > > > preserved is "/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu". Is that correct? Is it the
> > > > same for srvadmin-hap?
> > > 
> > > You are correct WRT libsmbios. For hapi, I've cc'd Doug who can tell
> > > you about their code. I've done a quick grep of their code, and the
> > > paths above look like the same ones he is using, but I could be wrong.
> > > 
> > > hapi/apilibrary/dchbas/linux/umhbaslx.c:#define
> > > HBAS_RBU_SYSFS_NEW_DATAREAD_PFNAME		"/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data"
> > > hapi/apilibrary/dchbas/linux/umhbaslx.c:#define
> > > HBAS_RBU_SYSFS_NEW_IMAGETYPE_PFNAME		"/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type"
> > > hapi/apilibrary/dchbas/linux/umhbaslx.c:#define
> > > HBAS_RBU_SYSFS_NEW_PKTSIZE_PFNAME		"/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size"
> > 
> > This doesn't make use of the firmware class at all, so I guess it won't
> > be affected by any change to the firmware class?
> > 
> 
> Dell makes use of the following dell_rbu paths:
> 
> /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
> /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
> /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data
> /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type
> /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size

Thanks for the clarification, which confirms my earlier findings.

-- 
Jean Delvare