Re: [dmidecode] dmidecode should omit warning about SMBIOS version when -q is set

[Erwan Velu]

Totally agree on this. I had the issue and had to filter out this element
unless it was reporting stupid strings to the user :p


2014-03-16 16:36 GMT+01:00 Petter Reinholdtsen <address@hidden>:

> [Jens Rosenboom]
> > As in particular scripts call dmidecode often with -s (implying -q)
> > and expect to get only a single word (and in particular only a
> > single line of output), I propose that in this case the warning
> > about an unsupported SMBIOS version should be ommited. Most scripts
> > won't be able to handle the warning properly anyway, also most -s
> > options should still continue to work. My patch would look like
> > this:
>
> What about sending the warning to stderr instead?  This way scripts
> looking on stdin will not notice, while the info is still emitted.
>
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
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