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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:39:28 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
       Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
       Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information
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Hi!

> This teachs dmi_decode() how to to save OEM Strings 
> (type 11) information.
> OEM Strings are  the only safe way to identify some 
> hardware, e.g., the ThinkPad
> embedded controller used by the soon-to-be-submitted 
> tp_smapi driver.
> 
> Follows the "System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) 
> Specification"
> (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios), and also the 
> userspace
> dmidecode.c code.

Looks good to me.

							Pavel
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