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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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?

Can't remember any discussion about this. Yes, there are some (3) files which 
are readable only for root. Solved this by read these files before drop the 
privileges. Tested it and the new code do the same as the old one.

Danny