On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync
> with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync.
dmidecode hasn't been updated since it was written, and still works fine.
I could also name several other such tools that have never needed a
change due to kernel upgrade, so this argument is bogus.
-- | 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/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jan 07 2002 - 21:00:20 EST