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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:36:59 +0300 From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> To: Mario.Limonciello@...l.com, pali.rohar@...il.com, hdegoede@...hat.com Cc: kernel@...pniu.pl, dvhart@...radead.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, len.brown@...el.com, corentin.chary@...il.com, luto@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 15:40 +0000, Mario.Limonciello@...l.com wrote: > > libsmbios would benefit. > > > > Really libsmbios matters here? Hans (added to thread) wrote that > > libsmbios is > > a relic, something of ages long gone by and a normal user should > > never use it. > > > > A normal user shouldn't be using it directly, but libsmbios is used by > a few open > source tools as a dependency. It's also used in many Dell > manageability tools. > Shouldn't tools evolve to use newer interfaces (while keeping compatibility with old kernels)? -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> Intel Finland Oy
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