[Maas-devel] 3rd Party Drivers

[Christian Robottom Reis]

PS. I hate top-posters.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:49:46PM -0600, Jason Hobbs wrote:
> 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.

I think there are two classes of user here that we should account for.

The first is the user who installs MAAS and just expects it to work for
them; that's probably the sort of user that Mark had in mind when he
filed bug 1382172.

The second is someone who uses MAAS and expects to extend it by
providing their own "driver" functionality, be it third-party enablement
drivers [for the kernel], or additional power control mechanisms. Jeff's
request seems to fall in line with this scenario.

Could we provide documentation, perhaps under

    http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs1.5/#developing-maas

that would accomplish the latter without making the system more brittle
for the former?
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