* DMI deactivated - why?
@ 2001-04-30 6:08 Michael Reinelt
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2001-04-30 16:27 ` Alan Cox
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From: Michael Reinelt @ 2001-04-30 6:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Hi there,
I found a quite interesting file: arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
It should print some DMI values at boot. As far as I remember, I've seen
these at times of 2.4.0 or so. Now these outputs are deactivated with a
#define dmi_printk(x)
Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
values quite useful!
TIA, Michael
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* Re: DMI deactivated - why?
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@ 2001-04-30 7:08 ` Jack Bowling
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From: Jack Bowling @ 2001-04-30 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
> On 30 Apr 2001 08:08:45 +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
> > values quite useful!
Shouldn't that be "un"activated? (Sorry...couldn't resist).
Jack
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* Re: DMI deactivated - why?
2001-04-30 6:08 DMI deactivated - why? Michael Reinelt
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@ 2001-04-30 16:27 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2001-04-30 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Reinelt; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List
> It should print some DMI values at boot. As far as I remember, I've seen
> these at times of 2.4.0 or so. Now these outputs are deactivated with a
> #define dmi_printk(x)
>
> Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
> values quite useful!
They take up a lot of boot log space and you can recover them later. Take a
look at dmiscan.c on
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/
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