[PATCH] Check if BIOS password is present prior to issuing libsmbios commands

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 21:21 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 27. August 2008, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I was made aware of a bug that was present in HAL causing users to get
> > frequent lockups from their systems when a BIOS password was set.  In
> > order to work around the issue, I added two patches to libsmbios [1] ,
> > [2] which is present in the latest libsmbios release (2.0.3) [3].  I
> > also produced a patch for HAL that uses this added libsmbios support.
> > These have both been included in both Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10 [4].
> > I would like to see them included upstream so that other distributions
> > can benefit.
> 
> Thanks, commited to git. 
> 
> I updated configure to check for libsmbios >= v2.0.3 and ifdef'd  the code for 
> the case that the needed version isn't installed to allow using also the old 
> library versions.

I get:

addon-dell-backlight.cpp: In function 'void check_bios_password()':
addon-dell-backlight.cpp:100: error: 'getPasswordStatus' is not a member of 'smi'
addon-dell-backlight.cpp:100: error: 'getPasswordStatus' is not a member of 'smi'

because:

checking for libsmbios >= 2.0.3... yes

even though I have installed:

libsmbios-devel-2.0.1-2.fc9.1.i386

Maybe the internal version numbers don't correlate with the package versions?

Richard.