Bug 1885816

Summary:	dmidecode's -oem-string option is useless when the SMBIOS data has multiple OEM string sections
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Lili Zhu <lizhu>
Component:	dmidecode	Assignee:	Coiby <coxu>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos>
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Version:	8.3	CC:	meili, ruyang, rvr
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.0
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Bug Blocks:	1882202

Description Lili Zhu 2020-10-07 03:41:49 UTC

Description of problem:
dmidecode's  -oem-string option is useless when the SMBIOS data has multiple OEM string sections

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.display the number of oem strings
# dmidecode --oem-string count 
1
1
1
1
1


Additional info:
Please refer to the bug 1882202

Comment 1 Lili Zhu 2020-10-07 04:47:18 UTC

Missing pkg info:
dmidecode-3.2-6.el8.x86_64

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2022-04-07 07:27:26 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.