Re: [PATCH v2] Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 02/08/2015 01:54 PM, David Michael wrote:
> The following are two use cases from Rajat Jain <address@hidden>:
> 
> 1) We have a board that boots Linux and this board itself can be plugged into 
> one of different chassis types. We need to pass different parameters to the 
> kernel based on the "CHASSIS_TYPE" information that is passed by the bios in 
> the DMI / SMBIOS tables.
> 

Whups ... somehow stripped all the cc's on my original reply.

why isn't 1) already in the kernel itself?

P.