From: Lennart Poettering <mznyfn@0pointer.de>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alsa-info: add DMI data to the alsa-info output
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:28:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601122812.GC32054@tango.0pointer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A22DC45.6000008@pardus.org.tr>
On Sun, 31.05.09 22:36, Ozan Çağlayan (ozan@pardus.org.tr) wrote:
> This is a working but not a clean/good patch for doing that because I'm
> not very good at shell scripting but I'm posting it just to give a
> possible idea.
>
> dmidecode should be run as root because it reads /dev/mem. If alsa-info
> is run as root, providing at least the system-manufacturer and
> system-product-name in the output will be very useful for distro
> maintainers.
Please note that this information is exported in sysfs anyway, in
/sys/class/dmi/id/*.
It would be much better to read that data from sysfs since it doesn't
need a kernel with /dev/mem, or root root priviliges or any other
software installed.
Lennart
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 19:36 [PATCH/RFC] alsa-info: add DMI data to the alsa-info output Ozan Çağlayan
2009-06-01 9:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-06-01 12:28 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2009-06-01 13:01 ` Ozan Çağlayan
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