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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Brown <Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mebrown@michaels-house.net
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] add SMBIOS tables to sysfs
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:30:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040428033020.GA14078@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1083119269.1203.2821.camel@debian>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:27:49PM -0500, Michael Brown wrote:
> Andrew,
> 	Below is a short patch to add SMBIOS data to sysfs. It it against latest
> bitkeeper 2.6.6-rc (specifically, it applies after the efivars patch that
> recently went in) but should apply to any recent kernel with only minor 
> reject on drivers/firmware/Makefile. A version for 2.4 (using /proc) will
> follow tomorrow.

Nice idea and patch.  A few minor comments:

> /sys/firmware/smbios/smbios/table_entry_point
> /sys/firmware/smbios/smbios/table

Why repeat the "smbios" directory?  Is this a limitation in the sysfs
interface right now?  Or are you going to put more files in the main
smbios directory some day?

> +	snprintf(sdev->kobj.name, 7, "smbios" );

Try using kobject_set_name() instead, it will do the proper thing if the
string is bigger than the base kobj.name field.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-28  2:27 [BK PATCH] add SMBIOS tables to sysfs Michael Brown
2004-04-28  3:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-04-28  3:38   ` Michael Brown
2004-04-28 16:50     ` Greg KH
2004-04-28  3:55   ` Michael Brown
2004-04-28 16:51     ` Greg KH
2004-04-28  4:41   ` [BK PATCH] add SMBIOS tables to sysfs -- UPDATED Michael Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-28 17:18 [BK PATCH] add SMBIOS tables to sysfs Michael_E_Brown
2004-04-28 17:36 ` Greg KH
2004-04-28 17:37 Michael_E_Brown
2004-04-28 17:44 ` Greg KH

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