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bug #42863: dmidecode 2.12 incorrectly claims that SMBIOS 2.8 is unsupported

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 28 Jul 2014 10:55:12 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  khali
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 29 Jul 2014 07:18:04 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Dmidecode complaining about SMBIOS version 2.8 is a bug, which is already fixed:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&r1=1.175&r2=1.176

Unfortunately version 2.12 was released before this fix so you have to backport this patch. See the list of all recommended patches in section "Download" on this page:
http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

I don't really understand your last question, of course you can download dmidecode 2.12, just follow the Download link on Savannah or on the page above.

Jean Delvare <khali>
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Mon 28 Jul 2014 10:55:12 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I created a static and dynamically linked binary to use dmidecode with and I receive this message on a SMBIOS 2.8 server:

# SMBIOS version 2.7 or greater is not supported in this version of dmidecode

or well something close to it.

I understand this is a comparison but seeing as how 2.12 supports SMBIOS 2.8 the comparison issue is a bug since it should look for SMBIOS versions greater than 2.8.0 and raise that warning.

With a server being at 2.8 it should be fine.  However I see just 2.8 so I'm wondering if 2.8 shows up as greater than 2.8.0 in your code.

Either way, could there be a separate tarball release for 2.12 aside from grabbing latest which isn't a version "cut" per se?

Thank you

Anonymous

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2014-10-06 khali Summarydmidecode 2.12 dmidecode 2.12 incorrectly claims that SMBIOS 2.8 is unsupported
    2014-10-06 khali Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2014-10-06 khali StatusIn Progress Fixed
    2014-07-29 khali StatusNone In Progress
        Assigned toNone khali

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