From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH} SMBIOS support
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:48:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CCC6036.1080500@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E171U1r-0008Pk-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>The following patch adds support for reading the SMBIOS table (which
>>contains system management information). It's required for IPMI and has
>>useful information in it. But anyway, since I did the work, I thought I
>>would post this.
>>
>
>We already have DMI table parsing code in 2.4 and 2.5. Its been there for
>a very long time. Please use that instead
>
>
>Alan
>
Ah, now I see. All the documentation I had referenced SMBIOS and didn't
say much about DMI, so I searched around everywhere for SMBIOS, not for DMI.
Thanks,
-Corey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-28 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-27 3:00 [PATCH} SMBIOS support Corey Minyard
2002-04-27 3:18 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-27 14:45 ` Corey Minyard
2002-04-27 15:01 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-27 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-28 20:48 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
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