Re: [PATCH] Add some system information to alsa-info.sh output

[Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net>]

I think i was a bit quick/excited about getting this info in
there..Tested on my 2 machines here (both running 2.6.24 though) without
issues.. Will have to look into it further (after taking your advice)
and rework this patch.

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:42 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:31:37AM +1000, Travis Place wrote:
> 
> > +if [ -d $SYSFS ]
> > +then
> > +BOARD_VENDOR=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_vendor`
> > +PRODUCT_VERSION=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version`
> > +PRODUCT_NAME=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name`
> 
> This produces visible errors if the information isn't present (which
> would be reasonable enough).  It might be better to check for errors and
> include something about being unable to read DMI information in the
> report - that'd be a bit less scary.
> 
> Also, on my system the DMI information is under /sys/class/dmi rather
> than /sys/devices/virtual (this is with 2.6.25).

This will certainly be a pain, if the info keep moving around.. unless
we do some quick 'search' for the 'dmi' dir.
> 
> > +fi
> 
> How about bios_vendor, bios_date and bios_version as well?
> 
How useful is the BIOS information going to be, in most cases ?

> For embedded devices the relevant information is often in /proc/cpuinfo
> so it might be worth adding that too.

Can i get an example output or 'cpuinfo' on an embedded device (if you
have one available) so i can see what im looking for.

Thanks,
Travis Place