From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Michael_E_Brown@dell.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EFI-support for SMBIOS driver
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:48:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16577.17064.857172.598873@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040605032902.GA7069@kroah.com>
>>>>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:29:02 -0700, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> said:
Greg> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:52:21PM -0700, David Mosberger
Greg> wrote:
>> The patch below adds EFI support to the SMBIOS driver.
Greg> The smbios driver is gone in 2.6.7-rc. You don't need a
Greg> driver for this, as you can do everything from userspace.
I know full well that it can be done in user-level --- via /dev/mem,
which lots of people dislike. I certainly don't feel strongly about
it, but the SMBIOS driver made sense to me.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-05 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-05 0:52 EFI-support for SMBIOS driver David Mosberger
2004-06-05 1:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-06-05 1:17 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-05 3:29 ` Greg KH
2004-06-05 3:48 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-06-06 0:07 ` Michael Brown
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