From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753009AbdJPNXJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:23:09 -0400 Received: from esa8.dell-outbound.iphmx.com ([68.232.149.218]:24340 "EHLO esa8.dell-outbound.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752989AbdJPNXH (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:23:07 -0400 From: X-LoopCount0: from 10.166.132.152 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.43,387,1503378000"; d="scan'208";a="563031629" X-DLP: DLP_GlobalPCIDSS To: CC: , , , , , , , , , , Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Thread-Topic: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Thread-Index: AQHTRK3puFrO07UkKEesnas/bEZnH6LmbHqAgAAL+yA= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:23:04 +0000 Message-ID: <0aebeec94bad4ca9baae335ef9e591b8@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <20171016073307.ahdc6ogzytzwckpq@pali> In-Reply-To: <20171016073307.ahdc6ogzytzwckpq@pali> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.143.18.86] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v9GDNFSo016680 > -----Original Message----- > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 2:33 AM > To: Limonciello, Mario > Cc: dvhart@infradead.org; Andy Shevchenko ; > LKML ; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; Andy > Lutomirski ; quasisec@google.com; rjw@rjwysocki.net; > mjg59@google.com; hch@lst.de; Greg KH ; Alan Cox > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI > > Hi! Just a small idea, what about including example userspace > application which would use this new API? I think such application can > be useful for documentation purpose to see how this new API should be > used. And in review process other people can point if there would be > some problems with usage. > > I do not know if it is requirement or not for introducing new kernel > API, but still example code is very useful for developers when they > would start to use this new API and correctly. > > -- > Pali Rohár > pali.rohar@gmail.com Pali, I've produced a small sample application available here: https://github.com/superm1/smbios-wmi-poc I'm still evaluating whether to update libsmbios to use this API or update individual applications to use it directly. If individual applications will be updated I also have code for fwupd ready: https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/pull/277/commits/d01b8ed8e1726dd2ab3d1d9fd46f624ced7a06a2 It won't be merged until: 1) This series is accepted and targeted to -next 2) I decide whether or not to update libsmbios instead Thanks,