Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI

[Pali RohÃr]

On Monday 16 October 2017 13:23:04 Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > From: Pali RohÃr [mailto:pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx]
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> > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/15] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI
> > 
> > Hi! Just a small idea, what about including example userspace
> > application which would use this new API? I think such application can
> > be useful for documentation purpose to see how this new API should be
> > used. And in review process other people can point if there would be
> > some problems with usage.
> > 
> > I do not know if it is requirement or not for introducing new kernel
> > API, but still example code is very useful for developers when they
> > would start to use this new API and correctly.
> > 
> > --
> > Pali RohÃr
> > pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Pali,
> 
> I've produced a small sample application available here:
> https://github.com/superm1/smbios-wmi-poc

Simple one-file example application. Great!

Darren, Greg, Mario, I think it would be better to have this example
application in tools/ or in Documentation/... What do you think?

Looking for examples on random github repos is harder and less official
as part of linux source tree.

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Pali RohÃr
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