From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/34] System Firmware Interface
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:21:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110719132157.GG8006@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110719100544.55c7f7fb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:05:44AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Could you expand somewhat WHY you want this. What is wrong with the
> > current code?
>
> See the previous discussions
Ok I will put that now as description into all my code submissions @)
Seriously, that REALLY belongs into a patch description.
>
> > As for user space access on x86 "dmidecode"/libdmi works for nearly everyone,
> > doesn't it?
>
> "on x86" (and on PC only generally)
>
> There are three core problems
>
> 1. DMI in this sense is basically an x86 PC class device hack
> 2. It is obsoleted and at some point it'll vanish even on PC
Huh? What obsoleted it?
> 3. Every other platform without DMI would benefit from the
> interface being generic
Can you expand on that? The information will be always system
specific anyways. Do you really think there's that much commonality?
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 13:08 [PATCH 00/34] System Firmware and SMBIOS Support [v3] Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 01/34] System Firmware Interface Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-19 0:43 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-19 9:05 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-19 12:23 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-19 13:25 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-19 13:52 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-19 13:21 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-07-19 13:39 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-19 13:46 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-19 13:58 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-25 19:03 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2011-08-10 13:26 ` Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 02/34] New SMBIOS driver for x86 and ia64 Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 03/34] arch specific changes for SMBIOS and System Firmware Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 04/34] drivers/acpi changes for SMBIOS and System Firmware interface Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 05/34] drivers/ata changes for SMBIOS and System Firmware Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 06/34] drivers/floppy " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 07/34] drivers/char " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 08/34] drivers/crypto " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 09/34] drivers/gpio " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 10/34] drivers/gpu " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 11/34] drivers/hwmon " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 12/34] drivers/i2c " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 13/34] drivers/ide " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 14/34] drivers/input " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 15/34] drivers/leds " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 16/34] drivers/media " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 17/34] drivers/misc " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 18/34] drivers/mtd " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 19/34] drivers/net " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 20/34] drivers/pci " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 21/34] drivers/platform " Prarit Bhargava
2011-08-11 4:30 ` Jonathan Woithe
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 22/34] drivers/pnp " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 23/34] drivers/power " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 24/34] drivers/rtc " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 25/34] drivers/staging " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 26/34] drivers/tty " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 27/34] drivers/usb " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-19 19:47 ` Alan Stern
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 28/34] drivers/video " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 29/34] drivers/w1 " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 30/34] drivers/watchdog " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 31/34] include/linux/acpi.h " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 32/34] Kernel panic " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 33/34] sound/pci/hda " Prarit Bhargava
2011-07-18 13:08 ` [PATCH 34/34] Remove old DMI & SMBIOS code and make SMBIOS default on Prarit Bhargava
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110719132157.GG8006@one.firstfloor.org \
--to=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=prarit@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox