[PATCH] Provide standalone SMBIOS management app

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Feb 24 19:46:41 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:38:44PM -0600, Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com wrote:
> Hi Matthew:
> 
> Has that been accepted yet?  I didn't think I saw it land on LKML yet,
> but I may have been mistaken.

It's in mainline for 2.6.29.

> So (obviously), I've not actually used the kernel driver.  I expect that
> it will cause this to be no longer necessary, but it's still useful to
> keep in place for when operating on an older kernel with a newer
> userspace.  Users on newer kernels with newer userspace can just build
> without libsmbios.

Yeah. I guess distributions can handle this in the common case.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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