Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:01:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:00:55 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:44806 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:00:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 01:00:23 +0100 (CET) From: Dave Jones To: Mike Castle Cc: Linux Kernel List , "Eric S. Raymond" , Alan Cox Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? In-Reply-To: <20020102235600.GA28621@thune.mrc-home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Mike Castle wrote: > It's not just a simple od -c type of output that a post-processor could > decode turn back into binary and decode. The routine would still have to > locate the DMI table, and decode at least the appropriate length of the > table, present that to the output, and then dump the output in hex format > or something. Why risk getting that wrong and screwing up kernel internals > when it can already be done in userspace? And as I've already pointed out twice it isn't a bullet proof solution to use DMI anyway in this circumstance. -- | 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/