linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information

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Message-ID: <20060802103927.GI7601@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:39:28 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>
Cc:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information

Hi!

> This teachs dmi_decode() how to to save OEM Strings 
> (type 11) information.
> OEM Strings are  the only safe way to identify some 
> hardware, e.g., the ThinkPad
> embedded controller used by the soon-to-be-submitted 
> tp_smapi driver.
> 
> Follows the "System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) 
> Specification"
> (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios), and also the 
> userspace
> dmidecode.c code.

Looks good to me.

							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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