Re: Patch: dmidecode --json

[Jiri Hnidek]

Hi Jean,
Great idea! I will be available for review & discussion & or any
cooperation during this week. Feel free to contact me.

Looking forward and thanks

Jiri

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote:

> Hi Jiri,
>
> On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 17:19 +0200, Jiri Hnidek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just finished the patch for dmidecode adding CLI option --json
> > providing machine readable output. Compilation of dmidecode requires
> > the json-c library. When --json CLI option is used, then the output
> > is written to stdout using JSON format. This could be useful, when
> > another application tries to parse output of dmidecode. The code was
> > tested with valgrind and there should not be any memory leaks.
> >
> > This patch is obviously big. I use github for hosting my remote
> > repository with this change. You can see/review/test this new feature
> > in this PR:
> >
> > https://github.com/jirihnidek/dmidecode/pull/2
> >
> > The patch is available as set of patches here:
> >
> https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/jirihnidek/dmidecode/pull/2.patch
> >
> > Or it is also available as one big patch here:
> >
> https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/jirihnidek/dmidecode/pull/2.diff
> >
> > Any feedback is welcome.
>
> SUSE will be holding it's traditional Hack Week from November 18th to
> November 22nd (shifted by 2 days for me as a member of the L3 Support
> team). This year I will devote my project to dmidecode and specifically
> the addition of a machine-readable output. You can read the project
> summary at:
>
>
> https://hackweek.opensuse.org/24/projects/add-a-machine-readable-output-to-dmidecode
>
> Obviously the idea is to leverage the work you have already done.
>
> If you have some time availability during that period, so that we can
> have a fast review and discussion cycle, that would be wonderful. If
> not, you can still catch up afterward, but it may not be as efficient
> as my own availability after the Hack Week is over will be lower.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
>
>