linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v1 4/7] platform: mellanox: add new ODM system types to mlx-platform

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Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:53:31 +0000
From:   Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@...lanox.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
CC:     "andy.shevchenko@...il.com" <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" 
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Michael Shych <michaelsh@...lanox.com>,
        "ivecera@...hat.com" <ivecera@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 4/7] platform: mellanox: add new ODM system types to
 mlx-platform



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@...radead.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 7:55 PM
> To: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@...lanox.com>
> Cc: andy.shevchenko@...il.com; gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org; jiri@...nulli.us;
> Michael Shych <michaelsh@...lanox.com>; ivecera@...hat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/7] platform: mellanox: add new ODM system types to
> mlx-platform
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:02:04AM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> > Patch adds new ODM systems, matched according to DMI_BOARD_NAME.
> 
> General nit. When writing your messages, please use the imperative (command)
> form. Rather than:
> 
> "Patch adds" or "It changes" use the same form you use in the subject lines:
> 
> "Add new ODM systems", "Fix struct field documentation", etc.
> 
> Again, I've been rewriting these, but as a regular contributor, this will help
> reduce the overhead of reviewing your patches - good for you, good for me :-)
> 
> > The supported ODM Ids are: VMOD0001, VMOD0002, VMOD0003,
> VMOD0004,
> > VMOD0005. It doesn't introduce new systems, but allows to ODM
> > companies to set DMI_BOARD_VENDOR and DMI_PRODUCT_NAME on their
> own.
> > It assumes that ODM company can't change DMI_BOARD_NAME.
> 
> You said "it assumes that ODM companies can't change DMI_BOARD_NAME". Is
> that an assumption, or is that how ODMs work with Mellanox?

Till now ODM companies didn't care about SMBIOS content.
But now we have two, which want to overwrite BOARD_VENDOR and 
PRODUCT_NAME (and some other fields).
System manufacturing for ODM is provided by Mellanox, so Mellanox
production team is responsible for setting all these fields.

Both don't care about BOARD_NAME and it has been closed with them,
that content of this filed will be defined by Mellanox.

> --
> Darren Hart
> VMware Open Source Technology Center