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

[Doug Klima]

Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Dienstag, 13. November 2007, Danny Kukawka wrote:
>   
>> On Dienstag, 13. November 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>     
>>> On Nov 13, 2007 8:08 PM, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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.
>>>>         
>>> You can't jump into sysfs with a /sys/devices/* path, that is not
>>> expected to be stable across kernel releases, and the location of this
>>> information can even change at runtime for some devices. You need to
>>> use the path starting with /sys/class/dmi/*.
>>>       
>> Okay, I change it before the commit to /sys/class/dmi/id.
>>     
>
> Any other comments or okay to commit?
>
> Danny
>   
I like it. I haven't really given the patch much testing since I just
built up a kernel yesterday with the support in it. As long as we have
the fallback to dmidecode, I'm ok with this. Unless we want to bump our
kernel requirement to 2.6.22.