Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Waychison <> | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:00:37 -0800 | Subject | Re: SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux? |
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resend as plain text, sorry :(
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > Wait, if this is just a simple "pass through to the hardware", then just > export the thing, with the proper permissions, in a single binary sysfs > file, and do the parsing in userspace. >
If you mean s/hardware/firmware/, then yes.
> > That would be the simplest thing to do, and fit the rules for valid > sysfs files, and keep people from having to dig through /dev/mem, right?
Yup, exposing the log via a bin_attribute and allowing for blobs to be appended (with the firmware either accepting or rejecting the format will do).
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