linux-kernel - Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

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Message-ID: <1492501019.24567.45.camel@linux.intel.com>
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