On Thu, 30 Apr, at 03:23:05PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > The SMBIOS3 table should appear before the SMBIOS table in > /sys/firmware/efi/systab. This allows user-space utilities which > support both to pick the SMBIOS3 table with a single pass on systems > where both are implemented. The SMBIOS3 entry point is more capable > than the SMBIOS entry point so it should be preferred. > > This follows the same logic as the ACPI20 table being listed before > the ACPI table. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes since v1: > * Added a comment explaining why SMBIOS3 must be listed before SMBIOS, > so that it doesn't get accidentally broken in the future. > > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 9 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Thanks Jean. This looks OK to me but I'd really like to see some ACKs from Leif, Ard or Ivan. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
