[alsa-devel] [PATCH] alsa-info.sh: Provide system manufacturer and product name from DMI

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:05:07 +0300,
Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon,  1 Jun 2009 14:25:41 +0300,
> > Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> >   
> >> This commit adds system manufacturer and product name informations
> >> acquired using dmidecode to the output of the alsa-info script.
> >>
> >> Note that those informations will only be available when dmidecode
> >> utility is installed and alsa-info is run with root privileges.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan at pardus.org.tr>
> >>     
> >
> > Thanks, applied now.
> >   
> 
> Lennart proposed to read the DMI data from sysfs which makes much more
> sense as the patch won't depend on the userspace dmidecode utility and
> root privileges.

Supporting both would be the best, as /sys isn't mandatory.


thanks,

Takashi