Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH manager 6/9] report: switch `dmidecode` to quiet to omit almost never needed info

[Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>]

On 22/03/2024 14:59, Alexander Zeidler wrote:
> like on this system:
> 
>  # dmidecode -t bios
>  # dmidecode 3.4
>  Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
>  SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
> 
>  Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
> 
>  Handle 0x005C, DMI type 13, 22 bytes


The manual page here states that this option also hides other entries:

> Unknown, inactive and OEM-specific entries are not displayed. Meta-data and handle references are hidden.

So especially on newer HW this might contain some actual info beyond
the SMBIOS version/metadata that gets hidden.

I mean, I have no hard feelings here, but I'm wondering if it's really
worth hiding that info if it can include potential relevant stuff.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Zeidler <a.zeidler@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  PVE/Report.pm | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/PVE/Report.pm b/PVE/Report.pm
> index 505629c7..3a81bdb2 100644
> --- a/PVE/Report.pm
> +++ b/PVE/Report.pm
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ my $init_report_cmds = sub {
>  	hardware => {
>  	    order => 70,
>  	    cmds => [
> -		'dmidecode -t bios',
> +		'dmidecode -t bios -q',
>  		'lscpu',
>  		'lspci -nnk',
>  	    ],