Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network

2011-11-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 20:31 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, > > > and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the

Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network

2011-11-08 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
On 09/11/11 08:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, >>> and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices. >>> In the l

Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network

2011-11-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:11:09PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, > > and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices. > > In the latter the MAC will be the key to address i

Re: Remote IP setup of devices in a network

2011-11-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 19:54 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The idea is to use an UDP broadcast to discover all devices, > and a similar UDP broadcast to configure the devices. > In the latter the MAC will be the key to address individual devices. You could almost be describing link-local IPv6. Each

Remote IP setup of devices in a network

2011-11-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
I am faced with a challenge that we ship devices which are all preconfigured to a fixed IP address, and we want to provide an easy solution to do remote IP configuration of all devices connected to the same network. In other words - all devices are reachable by a broadcast package. The network may

Re: A new Subsystem for Current Management

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:39:17PM +0530, R, Durgadoss wrote: > [I have posted this on lm-sensors and platform-drivers-x86 > lists earlier. As per some recommendations there, posting it > here] lkml would probably be useful. It'd also help if you could publish code along with your mail, in gener

Re: A new Subsystem for Current Management

2011-11-08 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On 08/11/11 11:09, R, Durgadoss wrote: Hi All, Hi Durga, [Very Sorry for the Big Email] [I have posted this on lm-sensors and platform-drivers-x86 lists earlier. As per some recommendations there, posting it here] As we all know, Linux is increasingly being used in handhelds. The Hardware

RE: A new Subsystem for Current Management

2011-11-08 Thread R, Durgadoss
Hi, [snip.] > > > > I would like to see the opinion of the community on this entire > > stuff, before I start writing some code. > > looks like this should be done on hwmon ? We discussed it there. The link I sent in the previous mail, has all the discussions. Thanks, Durga -- To unsubscribe f

Re: A new Subsystem for Current Management

2011-11-08 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:39:17PM +0530, R, Durgadoss wrote: > [Very Sorry for the Big Email] > > [I have posted this on lm-sensors and platform-drivers-x86 > lists earlier. As per some recommendations there, posting it > here] > > As we all know, Linux is increasingly being used in handhel

A new Subsystem for Current Management

2011-11-08 Thread R, Durgadoss
Hi All, [Very Sorry for the Big Email] [I have posted this on lm-sensors and platform-drivers-x86 lists earlier. As per some recommendations there, posting it here] As we all know, Linux is increasingly being used in handhelds. The Hardware that supports the handhelds is also becoming Performanc