Redfish OEM commands in OpenBMC

[Ed Tanous]

On 4/17/19 10:26 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, at 04:33, Andrew Geissler wrote:
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> I'd be more cautious here - breaking the OpenBMC kernel ABI due to carrying
> patches that are not yet upstreamed isn't great, but we can adapt userspace
> without breaking the external interface to OpenBMC. Breaking the external
> interface to OpenBMC is much worse from a user perspective. Essentially, you
> need to be prepared to support the OEM extensions well beyond standardisation
> of the non-OEM equivalent.

YES! exactly this.

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> RFC6648[1] seems informative here:
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> Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
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I never thought of that as similar, but that's almost exactly the same
idea.  I had no idea that document even existed.