linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI

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Message-ID: <20171016133705.cf4f5jqgq4ebhfcj@pali>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:37:05 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Mario.Limonciello@...l.com
Cc:     dvhart@...radead.org, andy.shevchenko@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        luto@...nel.org, quasisec@...gle.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        mjg59@...gle.com, hch@....de, greg@...ah.com,
        gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI

On Monday 16 October 2017 13:23:04 Mario.Limonciello@...l.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@...il.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 2:33 AM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>
> > Cc: dvhart@...radead.org; Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>;
> > LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>; platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org; Andy
> > Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>; quasisec@...gle.com; rjw@...ysocki.net;
> > mjg59@...gle.com; hch@....de; Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>; Alan Cox
> > <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI
> > 
> > Hi! Just a small idea, what about including example userspace
> > application which would use this new API? I think such application can
> > be useful for documentation purpose to see how this new API should be
> > used. And in review process other people can point if there would be
> > some problems with usage.
> > 
> > I do not know if it is requirement or not for introducing new kernel
> > API, but still example code is very useful for developers when they
> > would start to use this new API and correctly.
> > 
> > --
> > Pali Rohár
> > pali.rohar@...il.com
> 
> Pali,
> 
> I've produced a small sample application available here:
> https://github.com/superm1/smbios-wmi-poc

Simple one-file example application. Great!

Darren, Greg, Mario, I think it would be better to have this example
application in tools/ or in Documentation/... What do you think?

Looking for examples on random github repos is harder and less official
as part of linux source tree.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com