From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: "LKML, " <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru>
Subject: Re: Should we make dmi_check_system case insensitive?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:19:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060529071914.GA16787@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605290131.42292.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 01:31:41AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a request to add entry for "LifeBook B Series" to lifebook driver to
> accomodate lifebook B2545, however we already have entry for "LIFEBOOK B
> Series" (used by some other model) which is not working. Would anyone
> be opposed making dmi_check_system() ignore string case? We would have to
> malloc/copy both strings and lowercase them before doing stsstr...
I think it's easier to just add the second entry. We're trying to
distinguish individual machines here, the fact that we have a single DMI
entry accomodating a whole series is an exception.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-29 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-29 5:31 Should we make dmi_check_system case insensitive? Dmitry Torokhov
2006-05-29 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-29 6:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-29 7:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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