Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATED | From | Michael Brown <> | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:43:26 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 22:30, Michael Brown wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:22, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Michael Brown <mebrown@michaels-house.net> writes: > > > > > Below is an updated patch to add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios. > > > Updates have been made per Al's previous comments. Please apply. > > > > What is this good for? There are tools to read this from > > /dev/mem; and that is fine because the information is static. > > There is no reason to bloat the kernel with this.
Sorry, I missed one other reason.
This procfs/sysfs driver allows access to smbios information by non-root, non CAP_SYS_RAWIO users. I've had several occasions where I have been bitten by having to be root to read smbios when I did not need root for anything else. -- Michael
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