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Message-Id: <1213301632.17870.75.camel@violet.holtmann.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:13:52 +0200
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@...com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HP iLO driver
Hi Peter,
> > A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
> > programs to query the management processor. Programs can open a channel
> > to the device (/dev/hpilo_ccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.
> > The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
> > be shared between processes. This driver will replace various packages
> > HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.
>
> Wouldn't /dev/hpilo/ccbN be a more appropriate namespace?
this is udev's job.
Regards
Marcel
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