[systemd-devel] [PATCH] hostnamed: regard convertible chassis type as laptop

[David Herrmann]

Hey Jani!

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
>> While both the DMI and ACPI data are regarded as unreliable in hostnamed
>> source, consumers of the chassis type use it to make rather drastic
>> policy decisions.
>
> BTW, since the implementation seems to think the data is unreliable,
> perhaps it would be prudent to say so in hostnamectl documentation, so
> the consumers of the data might be more thoughtful about what to use it
> for?

Turned into a github PR [1]. Can we continue the discussion there?

Thanks
David

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5475