[PATCH v7 08/15] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens

2017-10-11 Thread Mario Limonciello
Currently userspace tools can access system tokens via the dcdbas kernel module and a SMI call that will cause the platform to execute SMM code. With a goal in mind of deprecating the dcdbas kernel module a different method for accessing these tokens from userspace needs to be created. This is

[PATCH v7 08/15] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens

2017-10-11 Thread Mario Limonciello
Currently userspace tools can access system tokens via the dcdbas kernel module and a SMI call that will cause the platform to execute SMM code. With a goal in mind of deprecating the dcdbas kernel module a different method for accessing these tokens from userspace needs to be created. This is