linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/34] drivers/platform changes for SMBIOS and System Firmware

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Message-ID: <20110811043057.GD15940@marvin.atrad.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:00:57 +0930
From:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/34] drivers/platform changes for SMBIOS and System
  Firmware

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:08:35AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> - Replace old dmi* structures and functions with new sysfw* and smbios*
> structures and functions in individual drivers
> - cleanup sysfw_id lookup tables
> - add exactmatch functionality
> - edit udev notifiers
> - cleanup of includes for dmi.h and mod_devicetable.h which were included in
> some files that did not need them
> 
> [v2]: Re-exported dmi MODULE_ALIAS
> :
>  drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c |   41 ++++----
> :

In-so-far as I can tell with a quick inspection, this looks ok for the
fujitsu-laptop.c module.

Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>

At the risk of looking ill-informed, I assume the DMI infrastructure has
been deprecated by the more general sysfw.

Regards
  jonathan
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