From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>,
"Rafael Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
"Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>,
"Corentin Chary" <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
"Mario Limonciello" <Mario_Limonciello@dell.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:09:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413160919.GC2064@fury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWQY28h87_4oPGP=TMj8BEOrtC-+2rr2Q6qKb1H3W07tw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 08:44:28AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 April 2017 17:32:48 Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl>
> >> wrote:
> >> > What we still need, though, is an open source version of
> >> > wmiofck.exe. I am unaware of anything like that existing and
> >> > installing the Windows Driver Kit just to run one command which
> >> > spits out a single *.h file is not something I would describe as
> >> > convenient (been there).
> >>
> >> I haven't tried to see whether they do what's needed, but there's
> >> OpenWBEM and OpenPegasus.
> >>
> >> Anyway, if such a tool exists, it would be handy to expose the binary
> >> MOF data to userspace so the tool could be used to help get WMI
> >> working on new platforms.
> >
> > In this case, when WMI stay in kernel, MOF data could be exported via
> > debugfs? I think there is no need to have them in sysfs stable ABI. As
> > above usage (get WMI working on new platforms) looks like for debugging
> > purpose.
> >
>
> That's a reasonable point.
>
Also agreed.
--
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-13 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 23:08 RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:32 ` Michał Kępień
2017-04-13 13:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 13:51 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-04-18 14:08 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:39 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:09 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2017-04-13 15:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:54 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:39 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:49 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 17:02 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:45 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:08 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:33 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 20:38 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 23:51 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 17:42 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 18:27 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 19:04 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 22:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-14 23:05 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-17 22:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-17 23:10 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 13:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-18 16:33 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 22:49 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-19 7:52 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 16:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-19 16:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 17:24 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-20 13:14 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 20:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-05 21:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-05 23:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-06 0:51 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-06 1:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-05-08 15:29 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 15:36 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 15:47 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 16:00 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 16:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <CAOg5c--wkQgvsmhTynAKyG9iWaHjRWC5Z+MXzVJVw66vxSz4Zw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-08 18:26 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 19:09 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 19:11 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 17:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 19:21 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 20:59 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 21:18 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 22:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 1:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 7:29 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 18:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 19:16 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 22:38 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 19:19 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-18 21:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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