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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > Just took a quick look at dmidecode.c and auditing this code doesn't > > > seem out of reach. > > Exactly. And 90% of it can be ditched. > But a setuid program *will not solve my problem*. Given decoding DMI isn't going to get you 100% fool proof way of detecting slots (See posts on laptops/other usually-with-crap-bios hardware), I think you're barking up the wrong tree with this anyway. And if you don't know what hardware you've got in the box your configuring a kernel for, its questionable that you should be doing so in the first place. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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