[PATCH] x86_64: Clean up and tweak ACPI blacklist year code
- Move the core parser into dmi_scan.c. It can be useful for other
subsystems too.
- Differentiate between field doesn't exist and field is 0 or
unparseable. The first case is likely an old BIOS with broken ACPI,
the later is likely a slightly buggy BIOS where someone forget to
edit the date. Don't blacklist in the later case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
index ca2a0cb..d2dfd9c 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
@@ -299,3 +299,33 @@
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_find_device);
+
+/**
+ * dmi_get_year - Return year of a DMI date
+ * @field: data index (like dmi_get_system_info)
+ *
+ * Returns -1 when the field doesn't exist. 0 when it is broken.
+ */
+int dmi_get_year(int field)
+{
+ int year;
+ char *s = dmi_get_system_info(field);
+
+ if (!s)
+ return -1;
+ if (*s == '\0')
+ return 0;
+ s = strrchr(s, '/');
+ if (!s)
+ return 0;
+
+ s += 1;
+ year = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
+ if (year && year < 100) { /* 2-digit year */
+ year += 1900;
+ if (year < 1996) /* no dates < spec 1.0 */
+ year += 100;
+ }
+
+ return year;
+}