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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Soos Peter <sp@osb.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] dmi_ident made public
Date: 24 Apr 2003 19:31:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051209098.4005.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424184759.5f7b3323.khali@linux-fr.org>

On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 17:47, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here is a simple patch for the 2.4 kernel series that makes dmi_ident
> (as defined in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c) public.

The dmi scanner is __init, its gone after boot. The DMI tables on some
platforms may also have gone. What you actually want I suspect is a way
to register multiple DMI tables for boot time scanning to set further
flags in the dmi properties post scan.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24 16:47 [PATCH 2.4] dmi_ident made public Jean Delvare
2003-04-24 18:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-04-24 22:43   ` Jean Delvare
2003-04-24 23:10 ` Greg KH
2003-04-25 10:15   ` Jean Delvare
2003-04-25 10:11     ` Alan Cox
2003-04-26 12:20       ` Jean Delvare

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