On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2017 08:57:16 Mario Limonciello wrote: >> This userspace character device will be used to perform SMBIOS calls >> from any applications sending a properly formatted 4k calling interface >> buffer. >> >> This character device is intended to deprecate the dcdbas kernel module >> and the interface that it provides to userspace. >> >> It's important for the driver to provide a R/W ioctl to ensure that >> two competing userspace processes don't race to provide or read each >> others data. >> +What: /dev/wmi-dell-wmi-smbios > > What about just /dev/dell-smbios? IOCTL provided here is just SMBIOS > related and I think userspace does not have to care if it is via WMI or > direct SMM mode... Important is that it provides character device for > SMBIOS API and not how it is implemented. > > Anyway, Darren, Andy, do we have some convention for naming platform > character devices? For me, looking to this case, seems better to expose a folder like /dev/smbios/ with actual vendor device nodes inside like /dev/smbios/dell Darren? P.S. Interestingly I wasn't in Cc list for this series at all. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
