Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables

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> Jean, am I right that drivers must not store pointers to DMI tables
> that they find through dmi_walk?  Is there any alternative interface
> that could be used to get a longer-lived pointer to DMI tables, or
> should drivers just parse them and copy out any info needed from the
> dmi_walk callback?

The easiest long term solution might be to just map the dmi buffer once
and keep it. It's not that huge so it's not a big address space hog.

Alan
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