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DateThu, 3 Jan 2002 05:03:07 +0100 (CET)
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync
> with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync.

dmidecode hasn't been updated since it was written, and still works fine.
I could also name several other such tools that have never needed a
change due to kernel upgrade, so this argument is bogus.

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

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