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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
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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.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center