linux-kernel - RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements

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Date:   Mon, 8 May 2017 18:26:53 +0000
From:   <Mario.Limonciello@...l.com>
To:     <a.bokovoy@...il.com>, <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
CC:     <dvhart@...radead.org>, <luto@...nel.org>, <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        <rjw@...ysocki.net>, <len.brown@...el.com>,
        <corentin.chary@...il.com>, <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements

(Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML)

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> I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. The state of affairs is 
> explained at https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ 
> -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is supported and OMI is the 
> implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack and nobody worked on
> it for years so it got removed.

Thanks!  That was a very interesting read.

> Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ 
> under MIT license.

Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format.