Re: DMI deactivated - why?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 11:27:30 EST


> It should print some DMI values at boot. As far as I remember, I've seen
> these at times of 2.4.0 or so. Now these outputs are deactivated with a
> #define dmi_printk(x)
>
> Can someone explain why this has been deactivated? I would find these
> values quite useful!

They take up a lot of boot log space and you can recover them later. Take a
look at dmiscan.c on
        ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/
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