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Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:02:18PM -0500, Mario Limonciello 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> ---
...
> +static ssize_t tokens_show(struct device *dev,
> +			   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	size_t off = 0;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < da_num_tokens; i++) {
> +		if (off > PAGE_SIZE)
> +			break;
> +		off += scnprintf(buf+off, PAGE_SIZE-off, "%04x\t%04x\t%04x\n",

Minor Coding Style nit - spaces around binary operators: 3.1) Spaces

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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[PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-28 06:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs  interface for SMBIOS tokens Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-30 04:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs  interface for SMBIOS tokens Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-10-01 11:00 +0200

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