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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Robert Lippert <rlippert@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux?
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:32:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211183245.GA10891@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Umq5gPr4xT4iChm+B+C+TOF1SB8gC4_ygqztR@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:00:37AM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> resend as plain text, sorry :(
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Wait, if this is just a simple "pass through to the hardware", then just
> > export the thing, with the proper permissions, in a single binary sysfs
> > file, and do the parsing in userspace.
> >
> 
> If you mean s/hardware/firmware/, then yes.

Yes, sorry, that is what I ment.

> > That would be the simplest thing to do, and fit the rules for valid
> > sysfs files, and keep people from having to dig through /dev/mem, right?
> 
> Yup, exposing the log via a bin_attribute and allowing for blobs to be
> appended (with the firmware either accepting or rejecting the format
> will do).

Great, that should be a simple thing to do then, right?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-11 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10 23:18 SMBIOS / DMI Event Logs in Linux? Mike Waychison
2011-02-11  1:25 ` Greg KH
2011-02-11  2:19   ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11  3:19     ` Greg KH
2011-02-11  2:20   ` Tim Hockin
2011-02-11  3:20     ` Greg KH
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTin3tu-NiotpzWaQ_ubV0jumb_WsjEK5QGi5w56o@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-11 18:00         ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 18:32           ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-11 18:56             ` Mike Waychison
2011-02-11 19:12               ` Greg KH
2011-02-11  9:54   ` Alan Cox
2011-02-11  2:04 ` Rob Lippert

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