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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:23:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140514112347.3f630565@endymion.delvare> (raw)

Hi Mike, Bjorn,

Sorry for joining the party a little late but I am just discovering the
dmi-sysfs kernel module. I have to admit that I am very curious about
why it was needed. What does it let you achieve that you couldn't
already do with dmidecode [1]?

I read on LWM [2] that you were mostly interested in type 15 records,
to gain access to the System Event Log information. Well, "dmidecode -t
15" does exactly that. It may be a bit late now but if anything is
missing from dmidecode, I would rather add it there than implement a
separate solution.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/
[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/429427/

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14  9:23 Jean Delvare [this message]
2014-05-14 15:52 ` Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module Mike Waychison
2014-05-14 19:23   ` Jean Delvare
2014-05-14 22:51     ` Mike Waychison
2014-05-15  8:48       ` Jean Delvare

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