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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-02 16:15:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-02 16:15:32 -0700
commitcea061e455c88312b86142e68c8fc5b8e1294ca2 (patch)
tree6e8afe1c4fb696582626db294b46daa59dcfb6c0 /drivers/firmware
parentd22fff81418edc92be534cad8d59da914049bf69 (diff)
parent47a9973d3ed8994589c845c8b1a293a475a549a9 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Add "Jailhouse" hypervisor support (Jan Kiszka) - Update DeviceTree support (Ivan Gorinov) - Improve DMI date handling (Andy Shevchenko)" * 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when using dmi_get_bios_year() firmware/dmi_scan: Uninline dmi_get_bios_year() helper x86/devicetree: Use CPU description from Device Tree of/Documentation: Specify local APIC ID in "reg" MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Jailhouse x86/jailhouse: Allow to use PCI_MMCONFIG without ACPI x86: Consolidate PCI_MMCONFIG configs x86: Align x86_64 PCI_MMCONFIG with 32-bit variant x86/jailhouse: Enable PCI mmconfig access in inmates PCI: Scan all functions when running over Jailhouse jailhouse: Provide detection for non-x86 systems x86/devicetree: Fix device IRQ settings in DT x86/devicetree: Initialize device tree before using it pci: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper ACPI/sleep: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper x86/pci: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper dmi: Introduce the dmi_get_bios_year() helper function x86/platform/quark: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro x86/platform/atom: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index e763e1484331..e35c5e04c46a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -1005,6 +1005,26 @@ out:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_get_date);
/**
+ * dmi_get_bios_year - get a year out of DMI_BIOS_DATE field
+ *
+ * Returns year on success, -ENXIO if DMI is not selected,
+ * or a different negative error code if DMI field is not present
+ * or not parseable.
+ */
+int dmi_get_bios_year(void)
+{
+ bool exists;
+ int year;
+
+ exists = dmi_get_date(DMI_BIOS_DATE, &year, NULL, NULL);
+ if (!exists)
+ return -ENODATA;
+
+ return year ? year : -ERANGE;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_get_bios_year);
+
+/**
* dmi_walk - Walk the DMI table and get called back for every record
* @decode: Callback function
* @private_data: Private data to be passed to the callback function