Hi,
The UUID parsing logic was modified in 2.10 and is the following :
/*
* As off version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3
* fields of the UUID are supposed to be encoded on little-endian.
* The specification says that this is the defacto standard,
* however I've seen systems following RFC 4122 instead and use
* network byte order, so I am reluctant to apply the byte-swapping
* for older versions.
*/
if (ver >= 0x0206)
printf("%02X%02X%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X",
p[3], p[2], p[1], p[0], p[5], p[4], p[7], p[6],
p[8], p[9], p[10], p[11], p[12], p[13], p[14], p[15]);
else
printf("%02X%02X%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X",
p[0], p[1], p[2], p[3], p[4], p[5], p[6], p[7],
p[8], p[9], p[10], p[11], p[12], p[13], p[14], p[15]);
and so the output of dmidecode now depends on the SMBIOS version. This makes it
more difficult to provide a decoder that is interoperabile with other UUID
parsers (i.e the Windows WMI provider), that parses the same host UUID. I think
that in it's current form this duality may cause backward compatbility issue
with existing apps when SMBIOS 2.6 system go mainline (I don't know if there
are any yet). So how about the following change:
1. Add a cmdline paramter uuid-parse-logic={backward-compat|2.6-compat}
default for uuid-parse-logic is backward-compat
2. Replace the above logic with:
if (uuid-parse-logic==2_6_COMPAT)
printf("%02X%02X%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X",
p[3], p[2], p[1], p[0], p[5], p[4], p[7], p[6],
p[8], p[9], p[10], p[11], p[12], p[13], p[14], p[15]);
else
printf("%02X%02X%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X",
p[0], p[1], p[2], p[3], p[4], p[5], p[6], p[7],
p[8], p[9], p[10], p[11], p[12], p[13], p[14], p[15]);
thanks Dori
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