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Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
Date 2017-04-13 17:50 +0200
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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.

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RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 01:10 +0200
  Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 09:40 +0200
    Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 19:00 +0200
      RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 22:40 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-14 02:00 +0200
          RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-14 19:50 +0200
            Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-14 20:30 +0200
              RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-14 21:10 +0200
  Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2017-04-13 09:40 +0200
    RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 15:50 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 16:00 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 17:40 +0200
          RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 18:00 +0200
            Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 18:10 +0200
        RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 17:50 +0200
          Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-18 12:00 +0200
            RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-18 16:10 +0200
    Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 17:40 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 17:50 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 18:20 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-13 17:50 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 18:00 +0200
        RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 19:00 +0200
          Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200
            Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 19:50 +0200
              RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 20:00 +0200
            RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 19:50 +0200
              Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 10:00 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-18 19:00 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 21:30 +0200
      RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 18:00 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200
          Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-04-13 19:40 +0200
            RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-13 19:50 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 18:10 +0200
  Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-04-15 01:00 +0200
    Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-15 01:10 +0200
      Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-04-18 00:10 +0200
        Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-18 01:20 +0200
          Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-04-18 15:20 +0200
            Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-18 18:40 +0200
              Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 21:30 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-19 00:50 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 10:00 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-19 18:40 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 19:00 +0200
                RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-04-19 19:30 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-04-20 15:20 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-04-20 22:50 +0200
                Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-20 16:20 +0200
              Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-04-18 23:20 +0200

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