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Re: [dmidecode] [PATCH RFC] dmidecode: Add a --dumb option
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lijiang |
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Re: [dmidecode] [PATCH RFC] dmidecode: Add a --dumb option |
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Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:18:32 +0800 |
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在 2020年11月10日 18:39, Jean Delvare 写道:
> Hi Lianbo,
>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:08:19 +0800, lijiang wrote:
>> 在 2020年11月10日 17:39, Jean Delvare 写道:
>>> This new option is aimed at firmware developers to help them validate
>>> their work. When this option is used, quirks and fixups are disabled
>>> in dmidecode, which will dumbly decode everything found in the table
>>
>> Seems this should be a raw data dump, not sure if it is more reasonable
>> to use the --dump-raw option, what do you think?
>
> No, it's not a dump. Raw dump mode is already supported since long ago,
> it is option --dump (or -u for short).
>
OK, thanks for the reply, please ignore the above suggestion.
If so, I would tend to use the "--no-quirks"(Erwan mentioned) or "--nofixups"
option.
Anyway, that's my personal opinion. :-)
Thanks.
Lianbo
> Thanks,
>