Thanks Jean. I used lshal so that it works on uid!=0. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/22/67 Do you think the above patch is any relevant or you see any downsides of it ?
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Navin, > > Le Thursday 21 May 2015 à 18:53 +0530, Navin P a écrit : >> Hi, >> This patch adds an option for displaying uuid in rfc 4122 format >> but not the smbios format. >> RFC 4122 format is used by kernel and lshal. In case they need > > hal is essentially dead so whatever it does is not relevant. > > The kernel is already supposed to be in sync with dmidecode, since v3.8 > [1]. However there was a bug in this area of the kernel, which I just > fixed [2]. I suspect this is your actual problem. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1d8e614d74b09531b9a85e812485340f3df7b1c > [2] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c1ac56b51b9d222ab202dec1ac2f4215346129d > >> this format they have the option of getting from -r option.Also this >> matches with kernel /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid > > /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid *is* the kernel, so you are not adding > any information here. > >> junk@junk-HP-ZBook-15-G2:~/dmidecode/dmidecode$ sudo ./dmidecode -r | >> grep -i uuid >> UUID: FF24355A-16B4-E411-91F9-1C545F06E0FF > > FYI, > $ sudo ./dmidecode -s system-uuid > would be faster. > >> junk@junk-HP-ZBook-15-G2:~/dmidecode/dmidecode$ sudo ./dmidecode | grep -i >> uuid >> UUID: 5A3524FF-B416-11E4-91F9-1C545F06E0FF >> junk@junk-HP-ZBook-15-G2:~/dmidecode/dmidecode$ sudo cat >> /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid >> FF24355A-16B4-E411-91F9-1C545F06E0FF >> (...) >> Attached the patch. >> Posting it inline as well. > > Please backport the fix mentioned above to your kernel, and you'll be > fine. > > -- > Jean Delvare > SUSE L3 Support > _______________________________________________ https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
