[PATCH] read dmi info from sysfs instead of call dmidecode

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 20:08 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch makes HAL to read dmi/smbios information on Linux from sysfs 
> (/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id) instead of use a prober to call and parse 
> dmidecode.

I'm pretty sure this was discussed some (many maybe) months ago and I
think what I said was that this wasn't going to work as some of the
files are read-only for root.... Doesn't this patch suffer from the same
problems?

     David