[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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dmi.h b/include/linux/dmi.h
index 2e6bbe014157..64fd6c366604 100644
--- a/include/linux/dmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/dmi.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ extern char * dmi_get_system_info(int field);
 extern struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
         struct dmi_device *from);
 extern void dmi_scan_machine(void);
+extern int dmi_get_year(int field);
 
 #else
 
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ static inline int dmi_check_system(struct dmi_system_id *list) { return 0; }
 static inline char * dmi_get_system_info(int field) { return NULL; }
 static inline struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,
         struct dmi_device *from) { return NULL; }
+static inline int dmi_get_year(int year) { return 0; }
 
 #endif