Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753203AbdDRHhO (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:37:14 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:61917 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754379AbdDRHhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:37:05 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,218,1488873600"; d="scan'208";a="1157394538" Message-ID: <1492501019.24567.45.camel@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements From: Andy Shevchenko 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 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:36:59 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <20170412230854.GA11963@fury> <20170413073228.GB1462@ozzy.nask.waw.pl> <3370431810bd4bc09fd9eb16eb9abea5@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> <20170413135102.GL3090@pali> Organization: Intel Finland Oy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 21 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 Intel Finland Oy