linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs

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Message-ID: <20100930143139.GA25792@lixom.net>
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:31:39 -0500
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	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

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:28:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.

Sure. I didn't think a trivial patch like this would get pushback,
but that's a workable fallback for my use case.


Thanks,

-Olof
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