RE: [PATCH v1 4/7] platform: mellanox: add new ODM system types to mlx-platform

[Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@mellanox.com>]

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> From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@infradead.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 7:55 PM
> To: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@mellanox.com>
> Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; jiri@resnulli.us;
> Michael Shych <michaelsh@mellanox.com>; ivecera@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/7] platform: mellanox: add new ODM system types to
> mlx-platform
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:02:04AM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> > Patch adds new ODM systems, matched according to DMI_BOARD_NAME.
> 
> General nit. When writing your messages, please use the imperative (command)
> form. Rather than:
> 
> "Patch adds" or "It changes" use the same form you use in the subject lines:
> 
> "Add new ODM systems", "Fix struct field documentation", etc.
> 
> Again, I've been rewriting these, but as a regular contributor, this will help
> reduce the overhead of reviewing your patches - good for you, good for me :-)
> 
> > The supported ODM Ids are: VMOD0001, VMOD0002, VMOD0003,
> VMOD0004,
> > VMOD0005. It doesn't introduce new systems, but allows to ODM
> > companies to set DMI_BOARD_VENDOR and DMI_PRODUCT_NAME on their
> own.
> > It assumes that ODM company can't change DMI_BOARD_NAME.
> 
> You said "it assumes that ODM companies can't change DMI_BOARD_NAME". Is
> that an assumption, or is that how ODMs work with Mellanox?

Till now ODM companies didn't care about SMBIOS content.
But now we have two, which want to overwrite BOARD_VENDOR and 
PRODUCT_NAME (and some other fields).
System manufacturing for ODM is provided by Mellanox, so Mellanox
production team is responsible for setting all these fields.

Both don't care about BOARD_NAME and it has been closed with them,
that content of this filed will be defined by Mellanox.

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> Darren Hart
> VMware Open Source Technology Center