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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:30:36 -0400
From: Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
To: ed@tanous.net
Subject: entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces
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Hi Ed

Will quote a comment from this EM review:

https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/36702

> entity-manager was designed with the tenant that it config files have 
> no knowledge of dbus.

FWIW I had no idea this was the case.

> We've broken that a little with the inventory interfaces on the entity 
> as a short term patch to gain some compatibility, but its easy enough 
> to roll back in the future.

Interesting - so there is a vision here, but I have no idea what it is.  
Can you elaborate on how you envision inventory working if EM is not 
implementing the inventory dbus interfaces?

thx - brad