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Message-ID: <20100929222804.7f506ba5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:28:04 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs
> Now if you really insist on exposing the whole DMI table through sysfs,
> I can't prevent you from doing that. After all, ACPI already exposes
> its tables under /sys/firmware/acpi/tables (mode 0400). But then you'd
> rather expose the DMI entry point and tables
> under /sys/firmware/dmi/tables for consistency, rather than using
> debugfs. But again, I don't think it is adding any value over what we
> already have.
If you really the DMI data generally available run dmidecode in the boot
scripts directed to a file. It even has a dump mode for this.
Alan
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