According to Matthew Jacob:
>
>This is all pretty good as a start, but you *can'* use dmesg. Something else
>has to be used.

AFAIK the kernel does not store the locators anywhere - they are
printed out by the driver but that is it.  _If_ the locators were
stored in kernel (ala the locator names) then I would happily use
them.  I consider parsing dmesg output an ugly hack at best.

> You also have to decide which is more important- spitting out
>a config file (logical hierarchy) or printing out the device tree (hardware
>hierarchy + pseudo device list).
>

No, I disagree.  The routines in prtconf that gather the data about
the devices can be shared with another tool that emits a config file,
if you think about it the data is the same it is just the presentation
that varies.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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