The oem strings in DMI BIOS have been parsed and stored as dmi devices in dmi_scan.c but they are not exported to userspace via sysfs.
The series of patches 1/2) fix the error exit code which may cause kernel panic if error happened during adding the oem strings to sysfs, and (2/2) export oem strings to a new group "oem" under sysfs device /sys/class/dmi/id. Alle Hung (2): dmi-id: don't free dev structure after calling device_register dmi-id: add dmi/id/oem group for exporting oem strings to sysfs drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4