Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:17:07 -0400 | From | okaya@codeauro ... | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/8] Introduce Peer-to-Peer memory (p2pmem) device |
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On 2017-03-31 21:57, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > On 31/03/17 05:51 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote: >> You can put a restriction with DMI/SMBIOS such that all devices from >> 2016 >> work else they belong to blacklist. > > How do you get a manufacturing date for a given device within the > kernel? Is this actually something generically available? > > Logan
Smbios calls are used all over the place in kernel for introducing new functionality while maintaining backwards compatibility.
See drivers/pci and drivers/acpi directory.
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