The warning appears although according to the Changelog, SMBIOS 2.8.0 should be supported. According to upstream, this is a known bug, fixed in their CVS, but they do not plan to make a new release soon. So we should do a 2.12-r1 with this patch (http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&r1=1.175&r2=1.176) and probably the other two that are listed on the project page (http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run dmidecode on a server which has SMBIOS version 2.8 installed. An example would be HP DL380gen8 with the BIOS update from 12/20/2013, which changed the version from 2.7 to 2.8. Actual Results: ~ # dmidecode | head -5 # dmidecode 2.12 SMBIOS 2.8 present. # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode. 187 structures occupying 6145 bytes. Expected Results: The warning should not appear. This in particular affects scripts calling dmidecode with some -s option, as they usually only expect a single word of output and break awfully when presented with a result like this: ~ # dmidecode -s system-uuid # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode. 35353636-3435-5A43-3333-313844465344
Created attachment 372808 [details, diff] This would be the combined patch
+*dmidecode-2.12-r1 (06 May 2014) + + 06 May 2014; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +dmidecode-2.12-r1.ebuild, + +files/2.12-supported-smbios-version.patch: + Upstream left an outdated SMBIOS version check in place but have neglected to + roll a new release so far. Backported fixes by J. Rosenboom close bug + #504810.
