On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 08:02:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c > +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c > @@ -1015,6 +1015,17 @@ bool dmi_get_date(int field, int *yearp, int *monthp, int *dayp) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_get_date); > > +int dmi_get_bios_year(void) > +{ > + bool exists; > + int year; > + > + exists = dmi_get_date(DMI_BIOS_DATE, &year, NULL, NULL); > + > + return exists ? year : -ENODATA; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_get_bios_year); It would be good if kerneldoc was added to this function. One thing to mention is that direct usage of the function in a conditional only works reliably when asserting an exact or minimum BIOS date. It doesn't work reliably when asserting a maximum BIOS date unless the return value is explicitly checked for -ENODATA. (Fortunately that use case seems to be rare, but still worth mentioning IMHO.) > +static inline int dmi_get_bios_year(void) { return -ENXIO; } Shouldn't this be -ENODATA as well for consistency? Otherwise one would have to check for -ENODATA *and* -ENXIO. Thanks, Lukas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html