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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> writes:
> 
> > greg k-h:
> > >What does everyone else need/want there?
> > 
> > dmidecode, so the init script can dump a DMI report in a known
> > location such as /var/run/dmi.  
> > 
> > I want this for autoconfiguration purposes.  If I can have it, I
> > won't need /proc/dmi.
> 
> Why can't this happen inside the regular startup scripts?  They know
> where to put such files; the kernel-level stuff doesn't--I can't think
> of any current situation where the kernel writes to an arbitrary file
> in the filesystem as it boots.  Sure, /var/run is in the FHS, but that
> doesn't mean every system will have it.
> 
> IMHO, since /var/run/dmi is not needed by any stage of the kernel
> boot, it should be created in the regular startup scripts (invoked by
> init(8)). 

You're right, I don't need this to be done at kernel level.  I do need it to
be done *everywhere*.  I'm not sure how else to guarantee this will happen. 
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