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Subject: Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output
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on 03/09/2009 18:46 Robert Watson said the following:
> I stand pleasantly corrected :-).  However, I think the point holds:
> we're relying on dmesg as the authoritative source of hardware
> discovery/probe information, and really, we should be using some more
> structured way of delivering that information, generic or device-specific.

Yes, I do agree.
And - I can't explain why - this conversation reminded me of the sensors framework
project. I expect a long discussion on the structure and access mechanism for such
information.

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Andriy Gapon