Re: [PATCH] ksysfs: Expose hardware name

[Richard Weinberger]

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> Gesendet: Montag, 23. Februar 2026 14:49:31
> Betreff: Re: [PATCH] ksysfs: Expose hardware name

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:34:48PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Userspace tools often require a short, descriptive name of the hardware
>> platform. Currently, this information is fragmented: Device Tree-based
>> platforms typically use /proc/device-tree/model, while x86 platforms
>> combine multiple values from /sys/class/dmi/id/. There is no uniform,
>> platform-agnostic way to retrieve this string.
>> 
>> The kernel already maintains dump_stack_arch_desc_str[], which contains
>> the model name or DMI values used for the "Hardware name:" field in
>> stack traces.
>> 
>> Expose dump_stack_arch_desc_str[] at /sys/kernel/hardware_name to
>> provide userspace with a consistent interface for identifying the
>> underlying hardware.
> 
> No objection from me, but now that this is a global symbol in the
> kernel, "dump_" seems like an odd prefix for this.  How about
> "linux_hardware_name" to match up with the sysfs file name?

I don't care much. The reason why I kept the variable as-is is because
the function to set it is dump_stack_set_arch_desc().
So the prefix makes kinda sense.

Thanks,
//richard