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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: knobi@knobisoft.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:17:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104221729.A5688@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3592E0.38DFA96A@sirius-cafe.de>
In-Reply-To: <3C3592E0.38DFA96A@sirius-cafe.de>

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
 >  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.

 When devicefs is ready (or more to the point, the drivers become
 devicefs aware), something to the effect of ls -R /devices 
 should be possible.

 If we have ACPI fill out the tree, it enumerates pretty much
 every device you have in the system, and half dozen you probably
 didn't know you had.

Dave.

-- 
Dave Jones.                    http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
SuSE Labs.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04 11:32 Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] Martin Knoblauch
2002-01-04 22:17 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-07 20:13 David Brownell

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