Re: [PATCH v2] efi: dmi: List SMBIOS3 table before SMBIOS table

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On Thu, 30 Apr, at 06:10:48PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 
> I don't have any objections to this patch per se, but I am not crazy
> about the fact that the way the output is ordered is kernel<->userland
> ABI now
> But since there appears to be a precedent with ACPI20 before ACPI,
> that was already the case, apparently.
> So,
> 
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Ard.

I've thought about this for a long while and we always kinda treat the
results of sysfs files as ABI anyway. If SMBIOS 3 wasn't so new I
wouldn't entertain doing this, but I think it's OK in this situation.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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