From: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@sirius-cafe.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davej@suse.de
Subject: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:32:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3592E0.38DFA96A@sirius-cafe.de> (raw)
> From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
> Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 18:31:33 EST
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > What's wrong with a startup routine that includes something like:
> > > dmidecode > /var/run/dmi
> > Absolutely nothing, and that also handily means it isnt setuid 8)
>
> Indeed, it's perfect. Except no distro does it (yet), but it's
> definitly the best idea so far in this thread.
>
seeing this thread - is there any serious work being spend on something
like "hinv" on IRIX, which gives you a *complete* listing of your
hardware? I have seen some attempts at shell and perl scripts, but none
of them really is trustworthy.
Martin
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next reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 11:32 Martin Knoblauch [this message]
2002-01-04 22:17 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-05 17:00 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-05 17:14 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:05 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 18:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:50 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08 8:04 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-08 18:36 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 8:25 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:06 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:45 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:29 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 20:36 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 22:03 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 22:28 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:59 ` Greg KH
2002-01-08 8:36 ` Kevin Easton
2002-01-11 21:52 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:25 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-07 17:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07 19:26 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 19:58 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-07 19:33 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 20:13 David Brownell
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