Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753739Ab1DERW7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:22:59 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56584 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754171Ab1DERW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:22:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:23:24 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Linux Kernel , Don Zickus , mikew@google.com, Greg KH Subject: Re: /sys/firmware/dmi name change? Message-ID: <20110405182324.6dbbba08@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D9B4E3A.4090601@redhat.com> References: <4D9B4E3A.4090601@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 29 On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:15:38 -0400 Prarit Bhargava wrote: > commit 948af1f0bbc8526448e8cbe3f8d3bf211bdf5181 (and follow on commits) > introduced a new firmware directory called /sys/firmware/dmi which > provides broken out SMBIOS entries for userspace. > > In a previous discussion I've mentioned that it would be a good idea for > us to move away from using 'dmi' towards using 'smbios' and centralizing > the SMBIOS code that is scattered throughout the kernel. One of my > changes was to export the SMBIOS information in a similar way that Mike > did in drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c. > > Since this API is new for 2.6.39, can we change the name of the > directory to /sys/firmware/smbios? Otherwise in 2.6.40, when further > changes are introduced to use SMBIOS in the kernel we will have to > change something that has been stable for one release. > > Mike? Greg? Alan? What do you think? IIUC, the interface isn't yet > "stable" so it should be changed now, correct? Seems sensible to me Alan -- 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/