Hi Alan, On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:31 +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > 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. Please note that SMBIOS specification version 3.0 allows for 32-bit length for DMI tables, suggesting that 64k tables were not large enough for everyone. Just saying. I have no strong opinion on the matter. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
