Re: DMI: add-type-41

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Would appreciate feedback on this patch.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Wim.
> 
> commit 4956e4e5e77b5a8f87bcfe6127ef17a406edf94b
> Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Dec 31 17:21:33 2007 +0000
> 
>     [PATCH] SMBIOS/DMI - add type 41 = Onboard Devices Extended Information

Is there something in the kernel that will consume this data, or is it
being exported in /sys/class/dmi/id somehow?  There will be one table
entry per device (Dell PowerEdge x9xx servers with recent BIOS do so).

FWIW, my biosdevname app consumes this data, using dmidecode from
userspace.


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Matt Domsch
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