linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add support for reading SMBIOS Slot number for PCI devices

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:35:18 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	Jordan Hargrave <jharg93@...il.com>
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for reading SMBIOS Slot number for PCI
 devices

Hi Jordan,

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:02:46 -0500, Jordan Hargrave wrote:
> From: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave@...l.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
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