entity-manager frudevice interface

[Patrick Venture]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:19 AM James Feist
<james.feist at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/19 5:02 PM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > James;
> >
> > As you know, I've started adding:
> >
> > "xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Decorator.FruDevice": {
> > "Bus": "$bus",
> > "Address": "$address"
> > }
> >
> > To my json files.  But I was wondering, this feature -- being able to
> > point back to a FruDevice by bus+addess may be sufficiently useful
> > that entity-manager always adds it when the probe result has a
> > bus+address.
> >
>
> I would generally disagree with this, as the FruDevice was meant to only
> be 1 type of probe, and I imagine in the future we'll have gpio, mctp,
> etc types of probes, and I would like to keep it generic as possible,
> and have EntityManager not care what it found on the other side of dbus.
> If there was some way to make it more generic I'd be interested.

Understood.  I'll just keep it in the hardware profiles -- no big deal :)

>
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Patrick
> >