Re: [PATCH] HP iLO driver

[Marcel Holtmann]

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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