> Ideally the DMI subsystem should be provided wrappers for platforms > without DMI, rendering patches like this unnecessary. Interesting question - is the PPC OpenFirmware machine information mappable onto the DMI space ? or the various static bits of name information in the various ARM and the like machine descriptions. If not which bits are similar enough we could replace dmi at the high level with an abstract interface for system/vendor/... that was ? ( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html