On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:17:29PM -0500, Doug Warzecha wrote:
> Because the hardware interfaces on those systems and the Dell
> systems management software that access the interfaces are
> proprietary, I can't provide specifications for the interfaces or
> source code for the software.
So you want a driver merged which nobody except Dell can write code
for?
> The systems that are supported by the dcdbas driver contain the
> following Dell proprietary hardware systems management interfaces:
> Temperature Voltage Monitor (TVM) and Calling Interface. These
> interfaces are supported by older Dell PowerEdge systems.
What's so special here that you can't give more details? I personally
find it a little unfair to ask to have a driver merged into mainline
to facilitate some proprietary userland where you refuse to give
protocol level details to create a viable alternative.
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