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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Consider the lives of people administering large server farms or clusters.
> Their hardware is not necessarily homogenous, and the ability to query the DMI
> tables on the fly could be useful both for administration and automatic
> process migration.

Given that 'dmidecode' works fine in those circumstances, that's still
not a convincing argument imo.

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

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