On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 5:51 PM, <mario.limoncie...@dell.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvh...@infradead.org] > >> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 6:45 PM > >> To: Limonciello, Mario <mario_limoncie...@dell.com> > >> Cc: pali.ro...@gmail.com; r...@rjwysocki.net; l...@amacapital.net; > >> len.br...@intel.com; corentin.ch...@gmail.com; l...@kernel.org; > >> andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; platform- > >> driver-...@vger.kernel.org; linux...@vger.kernel.org > >> Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements > > > > I meant that to say that at least for now Andy's wmi-mof driver should > > still be merged. > > If something is going to build on top of this to do WBEM tools, they'll > > need that MOF > > data once someone figures out how to nicely deconstruct it. > > > > The thing I don't like about my own driver is that, as a WMI device > driver, it can be loaded before the rest of the bus finishes probing. > So user programs that are notified asynchronously that the wmi-mof > driver is loaded and try to use future functionality (ioctl to issue a > MOF-based method call?) might end up doing so before the rest of the > bus is probed. > > This could be addressed by always exposing the wmi-mof device last > (sort of -- it can be a module) or perhaps by moving MOF functionality > to the core driver. Or maybe it's not really a problem.
Thanks Andy, I'll keep that in mind and see if I can come up with something to address it while working on WMI this week. The other problem with wmi-mof is that there will be no immediate open source consumers of the interface, and none on the horizon. We can't even test it to any meaningful degree on Linux. I suspect this will be met with stiff resistance. > > Also, isn't there a way to ask Microsoft to document this? Are you > supposed to "ask a question" on this forum, perhaps: > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg134029.aspx > > I'm guessing the Samba team knows how to do this, too. > It's a start. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
