Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:30:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:30:37 -0500 Received: from dsl254-112-233.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.112.233]:44932 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:30:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:17:02 -0500 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Lionel Bouton Cc: Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? Message-ID: <20020102211702.D21788@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Lionel Bouton , Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: <20020102174824.A21408@thyrsus.com> <20020102180754.A21788@thyrsus.com> <3C3398E1.4080904@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C3398E1.4080904@free.fr>; from Lionel.Bouton@free.fr on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:33:53AM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lionel Bouton : > If in rc.sysinit a call to "dmidecode > /var/run/dmi" were to go in the > user space 2.6 kernel build dependancies in Documentation/Changes, > you'll be on the same level. Problem is that would create another external dependency for the kernel configuration process. Unless you're proposing that dmidecode would live with the kernel sources and get installed with them. But I sense there might be the beginnings of a solution here... -- Eric S. Raymond 'Faith' means not _wanting_ to know what is true. -- Nietzsche, Der Antichrist - 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/