Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754093Ab1DES5m (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:57:42 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.44.51]:6713 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752939Ab1DES5i convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:57:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=google.com; s=beta; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NQAwkpWVDsQ3ff8HbzcSZk1G+lkmcKstNhJAABNkF4WFxhT9L3duTCrtjPDvO4RjAS d2mHfPIlg41IND/uoIhg== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110405173028.GC20622@kroah.com> References: <4D9B4E3A.4090601@redhat.com> <20110405173028.GC20622@kroah.com> From: Mike Waychison Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:57:13 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: /sys/firmware/dmi name change? To: Greg KH Cc: Prarit Bhargava , Linux Kernel , Don Zickus , Alan Cox Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1450 Lines: 35 On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:15:38PM -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? > > Fine with me if Mike's ok with it as well. ?If so, someone send me a > patch quick! Sounds good to me. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- 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/