The patch titled dmi: log board, system, and BIOS information has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dmi-log-board-system-and-bios-information-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: dmi: log board, system, and BIOS information From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Put basic system information in the dmesg log. There are lots of dmesg logs on the web, and it would be useful if they contained this information for debugging platform problems. "BOARD/PRODUCT" format copied from show_regs_common(), which is used in the oops path. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c~dmi-log-board-system-and-bios-information-v2 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c~dmi-log-board-system-and-bios-information-v2 +++ a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/ctype.h> #include <linux/dmi.h> #include <linux/efi.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> @@ -361,6 +362,33 @@ static void __init dmi_decode(const stru } } +static void __init print_filtered(const char *info) +{ + const char *p; + + if (!info) + return; + + for (p = info; *p; p++) + if (isprint(*p)) + printk(KERN_CONT "%c", *p); + else + printk(KERN_CONT "\\x%02x", *p & 0xff); +} + +static void __init dmi_dump_ids(void) +{ + printk(KERN_DEBUG "DMI: "); + print_filtered(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BOARD_NAME)); + printk(KERN_CONT "/"); + print_filtered(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME)); + printk(KERN_CONT ", BIOS "); + print_filtered(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_VERSION)); + printk(KERN_CONT " "); + print_filtered(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_DATE)); + printk(KERN_CONT "\n"); +} + static int __init dmi_present(const char __iomem *p) { u8 buf[15]; @@ -381,8 +409,10 @@ static int __init dmi_present(const char buf[14] >> 4, buf[14] & 0xF); else printk(KERN_INFO "DMI present.\n"); - if (dmi_walk_early(dmi_decode) == 0) + if (dmi_walk_early(dmi_decode) == 0) { + dmi_dump_ids(); return 0; + } } return 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx are linux-next.patch dmi-log-board-system-and-bios-information-v2.patch kernel-resourcec-handle-reinsertion-of-an-already-inserted-resource.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html