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Subject: Re: Processing PLDM FRU information with entity manager
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On 5/20/2020 10:35 AM, Brad Bishop wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 09:56 -0700, James Feist wrote:
> 
>> I need a better example. FRUs are independent things, so there is no
>> hierarchy.
> 
> A drive plugs into a riser which plugs into the motherboard.  Isn't
> that a hierarchy?
> 

For a FRU, no. FRUs are independent items. For inventory, yes. Assuming 
you mean inventory then? If so, then the paths do not have any hierarchy 
today. I assume it might be possible by creating an i2c device tree of 
sorts and mapping back what bus is which item.