On Thursday 12 October 2017 13:23:08 [email protected] wrote: > The existing dcdbas calling interface tooling (libsmbios) expects to be able > to access all calls and all tokens. *The kernel doesn't filter any of it.*
It does not mean that API/ABI was designed correctly or incorrectly. Existing old API/ABI is there and we are not going to change it... > I understand the ask to filter some calls and that's why patch 10/15 exists, > but please let me remind you this patch series is intended to /replace and > deprecate/ dcdbas userspace access. Now when there is a proposal for a new API/ABI, it should be designed correctly without need to redesign it again in future and address all problems which are found during review. -- Pali Rohár [email protected]
