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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:28:04 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs
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> Now if you really insist on exposing the whole DMI table through sysfs,
> I can't prevent you from doing that. After all, ACPI already exposes
> its tables under /sys/firmware/acpi/tables (mode 0400). But then you'd
> rather expose the DMI entry point and tables
> under /sys/firmware/dmi/tables for consistency, rather than using
> debugfs. But again, I don't think it is adding any value over what we
> already have.

If you really the DMI data generally available run dmidecode in the boot
scripts directed to a file. It even has a dump mode for this.

Alan