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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Michael Brown <mebrown@michaels-house.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATED
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:22:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r7u59sok.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1QvX0-A4-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Michael Brown's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:30:14 +0200")

Michael Brown <mebrown@michaels-house.net> writes:

> 	Below is an updated patch to add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios.
> Updates have been made per Al's previous comments. Please apply.

What is this good for? There are tools to read this from
/dev/mem; and that is fine because the information is static.
There is no reason to bloat the kernel with this.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-04-30 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1QvX0-A4-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-30 19:22 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-05-01  3:30   ` [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATED Michael Brown
2004-05-01  3:43     ` Michael Brown
2004-05-01 15:01     ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-03 23:49 Michael_E_Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-01 21:00 Lev Makhlis
2004-05-01 21:20 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-30  2:21 Michael Brown
2004-04-30  3:34 ` viro
2004-04-30  4:37   ` Michael Brown
2004-05-03 23:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti

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