Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 April 2017 17:32:48 Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 AM, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 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.