Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

From	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
Date	2017-05-08 21:10 +0200
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On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:26:53PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> (Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML)
> 
> >
> > ...
> >
> > 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.
> 

I presume which of these to use is the decision of the vendor? Is there a
transition going on from BMOF to Text MOF? Or will both be part of products for
the near term?

I'm trying to understand if BMOF is a legacy thing now, or if it will continue
to be used in new designs.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-06 00:00 +0200
  Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-05-06 01:50 +0200
    RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-06 03:00 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-06 03:30 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
          RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 17:40 +0200
            Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 17:50 +0200
              Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 18:10 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 21:00 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 21:10 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 21:20 +0200
              RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 18:10 +0200
  Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 19:20 +0200
    RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 21:30 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 23:10 +0200
        RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-08 23:20 +0200
          Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 00:20 +0200
            RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-09 03:20 +0200
              Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 09:40 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-09 20:20 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 21:10 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-05-09 21:20 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 21:30 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 00:40 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 21:30 +0200

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