Re: [PATCH 2.4] dmi_ident made public

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
24 Apr 2003 19:31:40 +0100


On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 17:47, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Here is a simple patch for the 2.4 kernel series that makes dmi_ident
> (as defined in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c) public.

The dmi scanner is __init, its gone after boot. The DMI tables on some
platforms may also have gone. What you actually want I suspect is a way
to register multiple DMI tables for boot time scanning to set further
flags in the dmi properties post scan.

Alan

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