From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, hdegoede@redhat.com
Cc: kernel@kempniu.pl, dvhart@infradead.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
len.brown@intel.com, corentin.chary@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:36:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1492501019.24567.45.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faffff39232f4734859a360cb666856f@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM>
On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 15:40 +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > libsmbios would benefit.
> >
> > Really libsmbios matters here? Hans (added to thread) wrote that
> > libsmbios is
> > a relic, something of ages long gone by and a normal user should
> > never use it.
> >
>
> A normal user shouldn't be using it directly, but libsmbios is used by
> a few open
> source tools as a dependency. It's also used in many Dell
> manageability tools.
>
Shouldn't tools evolve to use newer interfaces (while keeping
compatibility with old kernels)?
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-18 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 23:08 RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:32 ` Michał Kępień
2017-04-13 13:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 13:51 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:36 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2017-04-18 14:08 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:39 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:09 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 15:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:54 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:39 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:49 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 17:02 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:45 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:08 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:33 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 20:38 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 23:51 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 17:42 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 18:27 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 19:04 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 22:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-14 23:05 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-17 22:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-17 23:10 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 13:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-18 16:33 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 22:49 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-19 7:52 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 16:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-19 16:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 17:24 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-20 13:14 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 20:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-05 21:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-05 23:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-06 0:51 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-06 1:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-05-08 15:29 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 15:36 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 15:47 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 16:00 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 16:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <CAOg5c--wkQgvsmhTynAKyG9iWaHjRWC5Z+MXzVJVw66vxSz4Zw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-08 18:26 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 19:09 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 19:11 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 17:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 19:21 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 20:59 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 21:18 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 22:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 1:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 7:29 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 18:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 19:16 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 22:38 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 19:19 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-18 21:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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