From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945906AbWANAno (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:43:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945922AbWANAnj (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:43:39 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50097 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945906AbWANAn0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:43:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c From: Alan Cox To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Matt Domsch , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, "Tolentino, Matthew E" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <20060106172140.GB19605@lists.us.dell.com> <20060106223932.GB9230@lists.us.dell.com> <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:45:22 +0000 Message-Id: <1137199522.9161.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Ugh. I really hate this sort of sharing. Could dmi_scan.c go in > drivers/firmware/ or something instead? Not unreasonable. The DMI standard for the tables isn't specifically an x86 thing but drawn mostly from the management group stuff. The arch specific stuff is whether you scan for a table or ask the EFIng firmware