Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs

[Jean Delvare]

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
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