From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758464Ab0JUOZ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:25:26 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:40713 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751441Ab0JUOZY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:25:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:25:23 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Vernon Mauery Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Randy Dunlap , Linux Documentation , Platform driver x86 Subject: Re: [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7 Message-ID: <20101021142523.GA23171@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20101005224718.GC4046@lucy> <20101021135429.GC22133@srcf.ucam.org> <20101021142319.GA8754@lucy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101021142319.GA8754@lucy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:23:19AM -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: > On 21-Oct-2010 02:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Applied, thanks. It'd be nice if we didn't have to rely on DMI, >> especially since enterprise customers often end up running later kernels > > I am not sure what you mean here by problems with DMI running later > kernels. Oops, sorry! I mean running on older kernels. >> - is there any other way to determine that this is safe to load? Could > > I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow us to > ensure that this is only loaded on IBM systems. DMI is pretty good > about that. I'd suggest using DMI to verify that it's an IBM, and perhaps also using DMI to check that it's a server or blade rather than a laptop or desktop. After that you could just check the ebda rather than having to have an entry for every specific machine. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org