No issue with that. Thanks for applying. Erwan, On 11/02/2020 14:21, Jean Delvare wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 09:35:47 +0100, Erwan Velu wrote:Some vendors like HPe or Dell, encode the release version of their BIOS in the "System BIOS {Major|Minor} Release" fields of Type 0. This information is used to know which bios release actually runs. It could be used for some quirks, debugging sessions or inventory tasks. A typical output for a Dell system running the 65.27 bios is : [root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release 65.27 [root@t1700 ~]# Servers that have a BMC encode the release version of their firmware in the "Embedded Controller Firmware {Major|Minor} Release" fields of Type 0. This information is used to know which BMC release actually runs. It could be used for some quirks, debugging sessions or inventory tasks. A typical output for a Dell system running the 3.75 bmc release is : [root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/ec_firmware_release 3.75 [root@t1700 ~]# Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu <e.velu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 2 ++ scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 40 insertions(+) (...)Applied, thanks. Note that I went for "efr" as the shortcut string for DMI_EC_FIRMWARE_RELEASE, which was your first choice and has my preference.
