From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754593Ab0I3GhA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:37:00 -0400 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:34902 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753554Ab0I3Gg7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:36:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:36:39 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Alan Cox Cc: Olof Johansson , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs Message-ID: <20100930083639.3b9effa0@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20100929222804.7f506ba5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20100928211246.GA20941@lixom.net> <20100929093403.7db92388@endymion.delvare> <20100929145330.GA9351@lixom.net> <20100929171118.1dbf3fbb@endymion.delvare> <20100929222804.7f506ba5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:28:04 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. Dump mode? Do you mean dmidecode --dump, dmidecode --dump-bin, or something of your own? -- Jean Delvare