Target name refactoring
Andrew Geissler
geissonator at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 15:05:12 AEDT 2017
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Andrew Geissler <geissonator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some design decisions came out of my last set of changes in the
>> OpenBMC state area. There was a proposal to rename our targets
>> responsible for booting and powering on/off the system.
>>
>> Currently we have this:
>> - PowerOn: obmc-power-chassis-on.target obmc-chassis-start.target
>> - PowerOff: obmc-power-chassis-off.target obmc-chassis-stop.target
>> obmc-stop-host.target
>>
>> The obmc-power-chassis-*.targets are responsible for doing whatever is
>> required to apply pgood to the chassis.
>> The obmc-chassis-*.targets are responsible for starting and stopping
>> all host related services
>> The obmc-stop-host.target is where we have the soft power off service
>> (notify host of shutdown, wait for host to shutdown gracefully)
>>
>> Refactoring Proposal:
>> - First the chassis-start and chassis-stop target names don’t make
>> sense anymore with the new bmc, chassis, and host state break down’s
>> so:
>> - Rename obmc-chassis-start.target to obmc-start-host.target
>> - Rename obmc-chassis-stop.target to obmc-stop-host.target
>> - Rename the current obmc-stop-host.target to obmc-shutdown-host.target
>
> Can I suggest putting the host before the action?
>
> obmc-host-stop
> obmc-host-start
> obmc-host-shutdown
>
I believe Brad has a naming convention he's shooting for where the
verb comes second. I'm somewhat agnostic on this but we just want to
be consistent. With your proposal I'd probably have to rename the
chassis one's from obmc-power-chassis-on to obmc-chassis-power-on.
Thoughts Brad?
>>
>> The target relationships are then the following:
>>
>> obmc-host-start.target requires obmc-power-chassis-on.target
>> obmc-shutdown-host.target requires obmc-stop-host.target requires
>> obmc-power-chassis-off.target
>
> obmc-host-start requires obmc-chassis-poweron
>
> obmc-host-shutdown requires obmc-host-stop requires obmc-chassis-poweroff
>
> I think the rest of your proposal sounds good, from what I understand.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>
>>
>> When a system goes to the quiesce target, the host state manager will
>> call the obmc-stop-host.target. Otherwise, the host state service
>> will call the obmc-shutdown-host.target when power off is requested.
>>
>> Thoughts/Comments?
>> Andrew
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