Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757311AbdDROJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:09:10 -0400 Received: from esa7.dell-outbound.iphmx.com ([68.232.153.96]:7615 "EHLO esa7.dell-outbound.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbdDROJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:09:06 -0400 From: X-LoopCount0: from 10.170.28.40 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,219,1488866400"; d="scan'208";a="978530355" To: , , CC: , , , , , , , , Subject: RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements Thread-Topic: RFC: WMI Enhancements Thread-Index: AQHSs+HFfWGz3Na/pUazu2XvXvLesqHDPEIAgAANzoCAAFv3AP//yFawgAeq0ICAABlIoA== Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:08:51 +0000 Message-ID: <21d6718a327e4ebcb0174c573f27df68@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <20170412230854.GA11963@fury> <20170413073228.GB1462@ozzy.nask.waw.pl> <3370431810bd4bc09fd9eb16eb9abea5@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> <20170413135102.GL3090@pali> <1492501019.24567.45.camel@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1492501019.24567.45.camel@linux.intel.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.208.86.26] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail.home.local id v3IE9KEl010568 Content-Length: 1315 Lines: 33 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Shevchenko [mailto:andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:37 AM > To: Limonciello, Mario ; 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 > > 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)? Yes. If a WMI userspace interface does end up being the outcome of this thread, I'll push the relevant folks maintaining those tools to switch over so that dcdbas can be marked deprecated and only in use for older kernels.