linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware/dmi: Report DMI Bios release

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Message-ID: <5781c7dd-c19d-7664-4022-6e86e405f0f5@criteo.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:05:37 +0000
From:   Erwan Velu <e.velu@...teo.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
        Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1@...il.com>
CC:     "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Changbin Du <changbin.du@...el.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@....nu>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        "linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware/dmi: Report DMI Bios release

On 21/10/2019 16:53, Jean Delvare wrote:
> This would also be in line with how it was implemented in dmidecode. Is
> there any reason to NOT go that route?

The main reason was I though it would be easier to compare releases by 
splitting major & minor.

That is probably overkill, so I'll stick to the usual way to represent a 
release in V2.

Thanks for the review,

Erwan,