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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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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.

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

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