I certainly agree that it is not urgent to fix in 3.0.0.  I'll enter the bug.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Pak [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:34 PM
> To: [email protected]; David McKinley
> Subject: Re: [Openhpi-devel] saHpiMyEntityPathGet implementation
>
> David,
>
> You are absolutely right about that.
> And I guess you are the first one who tried to think about using
> saHpiMyEntityPathGet() function. :)
> Suggest to create bug ticket in OpenHPI SF tracker.
> We have very limited time frame for 3.0.0 release to include this fix.
> So lets target it for 3.1.0.
>
>       Anton Pak
>
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:23:54 +0400, David McKinley
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > As I've gotten more familiar with OpenHPI, I've come across something
> > that looks wrong, and I'm wondering if there has been some discussion
> > about it in the past.  Specifically, saHpiMyEntityPathGet() seems to
> be
> > handled by the hpi daemon, returning an entity path that is
> configured
> > in openhpi.conf for the daemon.  It makes perfect sense that the
> entity
> > path to return is a configuration item - but this API is supposed to
> > return the entity path of where the application that links with the
> HPI
> > library is running.
> >
> > Since applications running on various different entities - different
> > blades, for example - can all connect to the same HPI daemon, there
> > needs to be a way for those different applications to get different
> > entity paths returned as a result of making this call.  The easiest
> way
> > to accomplish this would be to make the entity path to return be part
> of
> > the openhpiclient.conf file rather than the daemon configuration.  A
> > much more complicated way would be to let the daemon figure out which
> is
> > the appropriate entity path to return by somehow identifying the
> client
> > making the request (by source IP address, or maybe some initial
> > information exchanged when a session is established).  I'm not sure
> that
> > there is any particular advantage to this latter approach, though.
> >
> > In any case, having a single entity path configured in the daemon to
> > return to any client request would not seem to accomplish the purpose
> of
> > the saHpiMyEntityPathGet() API.
> >
> > David
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