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authorkhali <khali>2014-11-14 10:58:15 +0000
committerkhali <khali>2014-11-14 10:58:15 +0000
commit47a0aa5d6696a83922ee70279b7253a4e55947d5 (patch)
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parent6d6e2504298cc0ff346eb55d10503d1795b34c56 (diff)
downloaddmidecode-47a0aa5d6696a83922ee70279b7253a4e55947d5.tar.gz
Add a note about DMI strings available from sysfs on Linux.
-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG5
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
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--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-11-14 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
+
+ * man/dmidecode.8: Add a note about DMI strings available from sysfs
+ on Linux.
+
2014-10-13 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode.c: Add support for DDR4 (DMI type 17). Patch from Tomohiro
diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8
index 9ca2d82..1bb4c69 100644
--- a/man/dmidecode.8
+++ b/man/dmidecode.8
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ keywords is printed and
.B dmidecode
exits with an error.
This option cannot be used more than once.
+
+Note: on Linux, most of these strings can alternatively be read directly
+from
+.BR sysfs ,
+typically from files under
+.IR /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id .
+Most of these files are even readable by regular users.
.TP
.BR "-t" ", " "--type TYPE"
Only display the entries of type \fBTYPE\fR. \fBTYPE\fR can be either a