dmi_type_name

The dmi_type_name function returns the printable name of the structures found at the type number type in a context, e.g. System information for type 1.

The name is the one dmi_spec_name gives the specification the number is mapped to in the context, see dmi_type_spec, which depends on the modules enabled in it: vendor modules map their specifications to OEM numbers, and may relocate them to other numbers than the ones they are declared with. A number several specifications told apart by signatures are mapped to is named by the one without a signature, or by the first one if they all have signatures, so the name of the structure itself is better taken from the specification it has been decoded by, the spec member of the entity.

A number no specification is mapped to is named by its range: OEM-specific for the numbers 128 through 255, which are left to OEMs, and Unknown for the others, including the numbers of the specification which are not assigned yet, the numbers of the modules which are not enabled, and the numbers out of the range of type numbers. Without a context no specification is mapped, so every number is named by its range.

Names are translated to the locale set by dmi_set_locale, if the library has a translation for them. The name belongs to the library, and must not be freed. An untranslated name is static; a translated one is valid until the locale is changed by dmi_set_locale.

Returns the printable name; the function never returns nullptr.

dmi_spec_name, dmi_type_spec, dmi_type_id, dmi_type, dmi_set_locale