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Message-ID: <4D9B4E3A.4090601@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:15:38 -0400 From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com> To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> CC: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>, mikew@...gle.com, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: /sys/firmware/dmi name change? commit 948af1f0bbc8526448e8cbe3f8d3bf211bdf5181 (and follow on commits) introduced a new firmware directory called /sys/firmware/dmi which provides broken out SMBIOS entries for userspace. In a previous discussion I've mentioned that it would be a good idea for us to move away from using 'dmi' towards using 'smbios' and centralizing the SMBIOS code that is scattered throughout the kernel. One of my changes was to export the SMBIOS information in a similar way that Mike did in drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c. Since this API is new for 2.6.39, can we change the name of the directory to /sys/firmware/smbios? Otherwise in 2.6.40, when further changes are introduced to use SMBIOS in the kernel we will have to change something that has been stable for one release. Mike? Greg? Alan? What do you think? IIUC, the interface isn't yet "stable" so it should be changed now, correct? The patch would be trivial ... (no patch attached yet ;) ). P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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