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Many systems do not use ACPI and hence do not provide a DMI table. On non-ACPI systems a warning, such as the following, is printed on boot. WARNING KERN tegra-audio-graph-card sound: ASoC: no DMI vendor name! The variable 'dmi_available' is not exported and so currently cannot be used by kernel modules without adding an accessor. However, it is possible to use the function is_acpi_device_node() to determine if the sound card is an ACPI device and hence indicate if we expect a DMI table to be present. Therefore, call is_acpi_device_node() to see if we are using ACPI and only parse the DMI table if we are booting with ACPI. Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303115526.419458-1-jonathanh@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.