Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Alan,

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:31 +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > Jean, am I right that drivers must not store pointers to DMI tables
> > that they find through dmi_walk?  Is there any alternative interface
> > that could be used to get a longer-lived pointer to DMI tables, or
> > should drivers just parse them and copy out any info needed from the
> > dmi_walk callback?
> 
> The easiest long term solution might be to just map the dmi buffer once
> and keep it. It's not that huge so it's not a big address space hog.

Please note that SMBIOS specification version 3.0 allows for 32-bit
length for DMI tables, suggesting that 64k tables were not large enough
for everyone.

Just saying. I have no strong opinion on the matter.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support