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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2015-04-21 07:38:05 +0000
committerJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2015-04-21 07:38:05 +0000
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dmidecode: Add --no-sysfs option to disable use of sysfs
This option forces any SMBIOS information in sysfs to be ignored, resulting in dmidecode using /dev/mem for SMBIOS access. This is likely most useful for debugging. Contributed by Roy Franz.
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@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ later.
Read the DMI data from a binary file previously generated using
\fB--dump-bin\fR.
.TP
+.BR " " " " "--no-sysfs"
+Do not attempt to read DMI data from sysfs files. This is mainly useful for
+debugging.
+.TP
.BR "-h" ", " "--help"
Display usage information and exit
.TP