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Message-ID: <20160114211612.5c253e32@endymion.delvare>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:16:12 +0100
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables
Hi Alan,
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:31 +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > Jean, am I right that drivers must not store pointers to DMI tables
> > that they find through dmi_walk? Is there any alternative interface
> > that could be used to get a longer-lived pointer to DMI tables, or
> > should drivers just parse them and copy out any info needed from the
> > dmi_walk callback?
>
> The easiest long term solution might be to just map the dmi buffer once
> and keep it. It's not that huge so it's not a big address space hog.
Please note that SMBIOS specification version 3.0 allows for 32-bit
length for DMI tables, suggesting that 64k tables were not large enough
for everyone.
Just saying. I have no strong opinion on the matter.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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