Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264918AbUD3TXF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:23:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265230AbUD3TXE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:23:04 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:23565 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264918AbUD3TXC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:23:02 -0400 To: Michael Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATED References: <1QvX0-A4-29@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:22:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1QvX0-A4-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Michael Brown's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:30:14 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 16 Michael Brown writes: > Below is an updated patch to add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios. > Updates have been made per Al's previous comments. Please apply. What is this good for? There are tools to read this from /dev/mem; and that is fine because the information is static. There is no reason to bloat the kernel with this. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/