Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Apr 18 2017 - 05:50:29 EST


On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 15:40 +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > libsmbios would benefit.
> >
> > Really libsmbios matters here? Hans (added to thread) wrote that
> > libsmbios is
> > a relic, something of ages long gone by and a normal user should
> > never use it.
> >
>
> A normal user shouldn't be using it directly, but libsmbios is used by
> a few openÂ
> source tools as a dependency.ÂÂIt's also used in many Dell
> manageability tools.
>

Shouldn't tools evolve to use newer interfaces (while keeping
compatibility with old kernels)?

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy