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-rw-r--r--chrome/browser/policy/browser_policy_connector.cc13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/chrome/browser/policy/browser_policy_connector.cc b/chrome/browser/policy/browser_policy_connector.cc
index 322bd83..82d1bc5 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/policy/browser_policy_connector.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/policy/browser_policy_connector.cc
@@ -74,17 +74,14 @@ const char kMachineInfoSystemHwqual[] = "hardware_class";
// These are the machine serial number keys that we check in order until we
// find a non-empty serial number. The VPD spec says the serial number should be
-// in the "serial_number" key for v2+ VPDs. However, we cannot check this first,
-// since we'd get the "serial_number" value from the SMBIOS (yes, there's a name
-// clash here!), which is different from the serial number we want and not
-// actually per-device. So, we check the legacy keys first. If we find a
-// serial number for these, we use it, otherwise we must be on a newer device
-// that provides the correct data in "serial_number".
+// in the "serial_number" key for v2+ VPDs. However, legacy devices used a
+// different keys to report their serial number, which we fall back to if
+// "serial_number" is not present.
const char* kMachineInfoSerialNumberKeys[] = {
- "sn", // ZGB
+ "serial_number", // VPD v2+ devices
"Product_S/N", // Alex
"Product_SN", // Mario
- "serial_number" // VPD v2+ devices
+ "sn", // old ZGB devices (more recent ones use serial_number)
};
#endif