[Maas-devel] 3rd Party Drivers

[Jason Hobbs]

Do we really want to expose this feature more as is?

There's this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1382172 that says we
should move it to /var/lib/maas so people don't mess with it; documenting
it more publicly seems to conflict with that.

Jason

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Andres Rodriguez <
andres.rodriguez at canonical.com> wrote:

> Jason,
>
> Can you please make sure this documentation makes it to the maas doc's?
>
> Raphael, CC'd should be able to point you in the right direction.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jason Hobbs <jason.hobbs at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There is some documentation for it in the code:
>>
>>
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-maintainers/maas/trunk/view/head:/src/maasserver/third_party_drivers.py
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Andres Rodriguez <
>> andres.rodriguez at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jason.hobbs at canonical.com
>>>
>>> Jason added this support, he will prove more info.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> On Jan 22, 2015 2:02 PM, "Jeffrey Lane" <jeffrey.lane at canonical.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please point to documentation that explains, in at least
>>>> minor detail, the steps necessary to include and use 3rd party drivers
>>>> with MAAS?
>>>>
>>>> There's a checkbox in the UI that enables 3rd Party drivers, but I can
>>>> find nothing in the docs on maas.ubuntu.com that actually explains how
>>>> to use this.  There have been at least two instances now where a
>>>> customer using MAAS in their test environment for certification has
>>>> asked "Hey, what's this do and how to I use it?" and I have nothing to
>>>> point them to.
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at the docs for Trunk and 1.7 at maas.ubuntu.com and even
>>>> a search for either "3rd" or "3rd party" which is how it's called in
>>>> the UI returns nothing.
>>>>
>>>> So can someone please clue us in on how to actually enable and use
>>>> those third party drivers?  The only example I know of so far was
>>>> HPVSA, but I expect others to come (Cisco has asked for some of their
>>>> network drivers, for example).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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