Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH/RFC] alsa-info: add DMI data to the alsa-info output

On Sun, 31.05.09 22:36, Ozan Çağlayan (ozan@pardus.org.tr) wrote:

This is a working but not a clean/good patch for doing that because I'm not very good at shell scripting but I'm posting it just to give a possible idea.

dmidecode should be run as root because it reads /dev/mem. If alsa-info is run as root, providing at least the system-manufacturer and system-product-name in the output will be very useful for distro maintainers.

Please note that this information is exported in sysfs anyway, in /sys/class/dmi/id/*.

It would be much better to read that data from sysfs since it doesn't need a kernel with /dev/mem, or root root priviliges or any other software installed.

Lennart