Re: Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module

2014-05-15 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Mike, Le Wednesday 14 May 2014 à 15:51 -0700, Mike Waychison a écrit : > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. But if access to /dev/mem was your only > > concern, your solution seems somewhat overkill. You could have just > > exposed the raw SMB

Re: Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Waychison
Hi Jean, On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Wed, 14 May 2014 08:52:36 -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: >> > Sorry for joining the party a little late but I am just discovering the >> > dmi-sysfs kernel modul

Re: Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module

2014-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Mike, On Wed, 14 May 2014 08:52:36 -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Sorry for joining the party a little late but I am just discovering the > > dmi-sysfs kernel module. I have to admit that I am very curious about > > why it was needed. Wh

Re: Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module

2014-05-14 Thread Mike Waychison
Hi Jean, On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Mike, Bjorn, > > Sorry for joining the party a little late but I am just discovering the > dmi-sysfs kernel module. I have to admit that I am very curious about > why it was needed. What does it let you achieve that you couldn't >

Purpose of dmi-sysfs kernel module

2014-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Mike, Bjorn, Sorry for joining the party a little late but I am just discovering the dmi-sysfs kernel module. I have to admit that I am very curious about why it was needed. What does it let you achieve that you couldn't already do with dmidecode [1]? I read on LWM [2] that you were mostly int