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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens
    On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Mario Limonciello
    <mario.limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
    > 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 intentionally marked to only be readable as root as it can
    > contain sensitive information about the platform's configuration.
    >
    > MAINTAINERS was missing for this driver. Add myself and Pali to
    > maintainers list for it.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>

    > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>

    To be clear I just suggested the output format in ->show() callback.


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    With Best Regards,
    Andy Shevchenko

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