Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265995AbUFEDtD (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:49:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265972AbUFEDtD (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:49:03 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:30884 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264524AbUFEDs7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 23:48:59 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16577.17064.857172.598873@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:48:56 -0700 To: Greg KH Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Michael_E_Brown@dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: EFI-support for SMBIOS driver In-Reply-To: <20040605032902.GA7069@kroah.com> References: <16577.6469.833064.763671@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040605032902.GA7069@kroah.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 20 >>>>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:29:02 -0700, Greg KH said: Greg> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:52:21PM -0700, David Mosberger Greg> wrote: >> The patch below adds EFI support to the SMBIOS driver. Greg> The smbios driver is gone in 2.6.7-rc. You don't need a Greg> driver for this, as you can do everything from userspace. I know full well that it can be done in user-level --- via /dev/mem, which lots of people dislike. I certainly don't feel strongly about it, but the SMBIOS driver made sense to me. --david - 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/