Replying to myself... On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:50:42 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Please also note that the recently released version 3.0.0 of the SMBIOS > specification introduces a new entry point format, and the firmware is > allowed to implement both the old and the new format. It may be > desirable to expose both to user-space under different names.
Having read the kernel code meanwhile, I see we will call either dmi_smbios3_present or dmi_present successfully, not both, so presenting both entry points to user-space would be non-trivial. So I'm fine with presenting only one entry point in sysfs for the time being. We can always revisit later if it turns out that dmidecode really needs both in some cases. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
