From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi: dmi: List SMBIOS3 table before SMBIOS table Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 19:11:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20150526181152.GA3030@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <20150430152305.26b89bd3@endymion.delvare> <20150430160401.GF3014@codeblueprint.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Jean Delvare , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Leif Lindholm , Matt Fleming , "Ivan.khoronzhuk" List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Apr, at 06:10:48PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > I don't have any objections to this patch per se, but I am not crazy > about the fact that the way the output is ordered is kernel<->userland > ABI now > But since there appears to be a precedent with ACPI20 before ACPI, > that was already the case, apparently. > So, > > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Thanks Ard. I've thought about this for a long while and we always kinda treat the results of sysfs files as ABI anyway. If SMBIOS 3 wasn't so new I wouldn't entertain doing this, but I think it's OK in this situation. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center