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[PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information
authorShem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:59:37 +0000 (01:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:18:09 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
commit2e0c1f6ce7b816f63fea2af3e5e2cb20c66430e9
tree9ee9f9d5d1aff04df6d0974883d8817a980dfa37
parent89e7e374dde1015d69d2d70797ae4053b14fa9db
[PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information

This teaches dmi_decode() how to decode and save OEM Strings (type 11) DMI
information, which is currently discarded silently.  Existing code using
DMI is not affected.  Follows the "System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)
Specification" (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios), and also the
userspace dmidecode.c code.

OEM Strings are the only safe way to identify some hardware, e.g., the
ThinkPad embedded controller used by the soon-to-be-submitted tp_smapi
driver.  This will also let us eliminate the long whitelist in the mainline
hdaps driver (in a future patch).

Signed-off-by: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
include/linux/dmi.h