[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH 0 of 2] [RFC] Prepare provider registration and provider name for OpenWbem

[Heidi Eckhart]

Kaitlin Rupert wrote:
> I haven't seen the "Provider" qualifier before.  Is this something 
> non-standard that OpenWbem requires?  Or is this a standard qualifier 
> that Pegasus / sfcb opt not to use?
>
This is very close to what the "Provider" qualifier is. Section 2.5.3 
"Optional Qualifiers" of DMTF's DSP0004 "CIM Infrastructure 
Specification" v2.3 Final describes it as following:

The optional qualifiers listed in this table address situations that are 
not common to all CIM-compliant implementations. Thus, CIM-compliant 
implementations can ignore optional qualifiers since they are not 
required to interpret or understand these qualifiers. These are provided 
in the specification to avoid random user-defined qualifiers for these 
recurring situations.
...
PROVIDER: An implementation specific handle to the instrumentation that 
populates those elements in the schemas that refer to dynamic data.
...

OpenWbem makes use of the optional "Provider" qualifier, while Pegasus 
and sfcb ignore the qualifier and have their own approach to register 
providers. That's why we also need the provider_register script and the 
registration files.

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Regards

Heidi Eckhart
Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - Open Hypervisor

heidieck at linux.vnet.ibm.com

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