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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:48:54 -0500
From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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