> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Shevchenko [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:50 AM > To: Limonciello, Mario <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; LKML <[email protected]>; Platform Driver > <[email protected]>; Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; Pali Rohár <[email protected]>; Rafael J. Wysocki > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>; > Greg KH <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add a sysfs > interface for > SMBIOS tokens > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Mario Limonciello > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently userspace tools can access system tokens via the dcdbas > > kernel module and a SMI call that will cause the platform to execute > > SMM code. > > > > With a goal in mind of deprecating the dcdbas kernel module a different > > method for accessing these tokens from userspace needs to be created. > > > > This is intentionally marked to only be readable as root as it can > > contain sensitive information about the platform's configuration. > > > > MAINTAINERS was missing for this driver. Add myself and Pali to > > maintainers list for it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <[email protected]> > > > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> > > To be clear I just suggested the output format in ->show() callback.
Andy, do you mean you would prefer not to be attributed in the description, or should I be clearer that was your suggestion?
