Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs

[Andi Kleen]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Now if you really insist on exposing the whole DMI table through sysfs,
>> I can't prevent you from doing that. After all, ACPI already exposes
>> its tables under /sys/firmware/acpi/tables (mode 0400). But then you'd
>> rather expose the DMI entry point and tables
>> under /sys/firmware/dmi/tables for consistency, rather than using
>> debugfs. But again, I don't think it is adding any value over what we
>> already have.
>
> If you really the DMI data generally available run dmidecode in the boot
> scripts directed to a file. It even has a dump mode for this.

FWIW i have been pondering to put DMI into sysfs too. One of the reasons
mcelog has to start up as root is that it needs to get these tables
out of /dev/mem.

Just having a binary file to read would be fine though, no need to 
do decoding.

-andi

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