On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 09:57:32AM -0500, Jordan Hargrave wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> wrote: > > > Hi Jordan, > > > > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:02:46 -0500, Jordan Hargrave wrote: > > > From: Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargr...@dell.com> > > > > > > There currently isn't an easy way to determine which PCI devices belong > > to > > > system slots. This patch adds support to read SMBIOS Type 9 (System > > Slots). > > > > I'm wondering, can't you use dmidecode or libsmbios to retrieve the > > same information? > > > > -- > > Jean Delvare > > SUSE L3 Support > > > > You can but it's as not easy to determine the slot number for leaf devices > on bridges. Eventually planning on using this for pulling slot number for > identifying network cards and disk numbering for systemd
Can you outline the problems with using dmidecode or libsmbios? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
