On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
No. But it is just one example of a system where someone might not want to install stuff from pkgsrc to get the same kind of system configuration information that has traditionally been printed out by the kernel at boot time, where available. And for 8K of device driver size -- it seems like we should include it. Also, running dmidecode requires running the system in insecure mode. That sucks.
Ah, but there is already a DMI decoder in the kernel, we can expose the sysctls you want without having to have a potentially dangerous i2c driver in the GENERIC kernel.
Jared