2001-04-30 06:09:18

by Michael Reinelt

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Subject: DMI deactivated - why?

Hi there,

I found a quite interesting file: arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c

It should print some DMI values at boot. As far as I remember, I've seen
these at times of 2.4.0 or so. Now these outputs are deactivated with a
#define dmi_printk(x)

Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
values quite useful!

TIA, Michael

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2001-04-30 07:09:16

by Jack Bowling

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Subject: Re: DMI deactivated - why?

> On 30 Apr 2001 08:08:45 +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
> > values quite useful!


Shouldn't that be "un"activated? (Sorry...couldn't resist).

Jack

2001-04-30 16:26:28

by Alan

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Subject: Re: DMI deactivated - why?

> It should print some DMI values at boot. As far as I remember, I've seen
> these at times of 2.4.0 or so. Now these outputs are deactivated with a
> #define dmi_printk(x)
>
> Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
> values quite useful!

They take up a lot of boot log space and you can recover them later. Take a
look at dmiscan.c on
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/