entity manager configurations and dbus interfaces

[Andrei Kartashev]

Well, I didn't meant EM is bad, it was "I don't understand well how all
this supposed to work".
Now I have number of inputs from you in different topics but I still
need to bring things together to get the picture.

On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 08:54 -0700, Ed Tanous wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:43 AM Andrei Kartashev <
> a.kartashev at yadro.com> wrote:
> > Hi Brad,
> > 
> > Thank for bring up this question.
> > Same as you we have slightly bad view on EM architecture since
> > before
> > we had only Power-based platforms and now we are working on our
> > first
> > x86-based one.
> 
> Can you go into more specifics about what you don't like about it?  I
> know a lot of the complaints I've heard revolves around
> documentation.
> I'm trying to hammer away at that as I get time.  Is there any other
> low hanging fruit that we can fix that's entity-manager specific?
> 
> > Following up the discussion in the review and also mailing
> > discussion
> > we had early, I now preparing some Implementation Proposal document
> > for
> > EM-based inventory. I gonna to submit it to docs repo for
> > discussing
> > and finding our common understanding of how it supposed to be.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 10:30 -0400, Brad Bishop wrote:
> > > Hi Ed
> > > 
> > > Will quote a comment from this EM review:
> > > 
> > > https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/36702
> > > 
> > > > entity-manager was designed with the tenant that it config
> > > > files
> > > > have
> > > > no knowledge of dbus.
> > > 
> > > FWIW I had no idea this was the case.
> > > 
> > > > We've broken that a little with the inventory interfaces on the
> > > > entity
> > > > as a short term patch to gain some compatibility, but its easy
> > > > enough
> > > > to roll back in the future.
> > > 
> > > Interesting - so there is a vision here, but I have no idea what
> > > it
> > > is.
> > > Can you elaborate on how you envision inventory working if EM is
> > > not
> > > implementing the inventory dbus interfaces?
> > > 
> > > thx - brad
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Andrei Kartashev
> > 
> > 
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Best regards,
Andrei Kartashev