On 2017-03-31 21:57, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
On 31/03/17 05:51 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:You can put a restriction with DMI/SMBIOS such that all devices from 2016work else they belong to blacklist.How do you get a manufacturing date for a given device within the kernel? Is this actually something generically available? Logan
Smbios calls are used all over the place in kernel for introducing new functionality while maintaining backwards compatibility.
See drivers/pci and drivers/acpi directory.