Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Waychison <> | Date | Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:57:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: /sys/firmware/dmi name change? |
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:15:38PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> commit 948af1f0bbc8526448e8cbe3f8d3bf211bdf5181 (and follow on commits) >> introduced a new firmware directory called /sys/firmware/dmi which >> provides broken out SMBIOS entries for userspace. >> >> In a previous discussion I've mentioned that it would be a good idea for >> us to move away from using 'dmi' towards using 'smbios' and centralizing >> the SMBIOS code that is scattered throughout the kernel. One of my >> changes was to export the SMBIOS information in a similar way that Mike >> did in drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c. >> >> Since this API is new for 2.6.39, can we change the name of the >> directory to /sys/firmware/smbios? Otherwise in 2.6.40, when further >> changes are introduced to use SMBIOS in the kernel we will have to >> change something that has been stable for one release. >> >> Mike? Greg? Alan? What do you think? IIUC, the interface isn't yet >> "stable" so it should be changed now, correct? > > Fine with me if Mike's ok with it as well. If so, someone send me a > patch quick!
Sounds good to me.
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