dmi_matches(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is dmi_matches(9), and she's here to check if dmi_system_id structure matches system DMI data. no cap, that's literally the whole assignment 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool dmi_matches (const struct dmi_system_id *dmi );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dmi — pointer to the dmi_system_id structure to check. that's the whole handoff, bestie: give her the struct and let her do her match thing 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c — that's where the lore lives 🧚

• dmi_setup(9)
• dmi_is_end_of_table(9)
• dmi_check_system(9)
• dmi_first_match(9)
• dmi_get_system_info(9)
• dmi_name_in_serial(9)
• dmi_name_in_vendors(9)
• dmi_find_device(9)
• dmi_get_date(9)
• dmi_get_bios_year(9)
• dmi_walk(9)
• dmi_match(9)
• dmi_memdev_type(9)
• dmi_memdev_handle(9)

mwah 💋 this page's source/version is ./drivers/firmware, dated October 2026 — dmi_matches(9) out, periodt. 🦋