paths to configuration files in entity manager

[Brad Bishop]

Hi James

We have a number of applications we are looking at converting to getting their configuration from EM.  Some of the configuration data is quite large and may not make sense to put on dbus.

For example…

On some POWER systems the BMC is responsible for figuring out which board it is running on and selecting one of many host firmware configurations to present to the host firmware.  We are considering using EM to accomplish this.

This is a large, binary data set and one idea to avoid putting it on dbus was to just put a path to a file in the EM configuration.  Is this a bad idea?

Thanks!

-brad