It evolved from a *non*-unique hardware identification which triggered automatic kernel module downloads. Was too difficult, so I'm back to doing everything manually again. Although this means some machines with different ids load the same list of stuff. No real overhead, because most stuff is buggy, thus needs special care anyway.
On 08.02.2012, Premysl Hruby <dfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/02/12 12:50, hiro wrote: >> Anybody know a simple way to get a laptops device's serial number or >> some other unique identifier which won''t identify all other same >> models? >> >> So far I came up with this: >> ( for MA in `ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/modalias` >> do >> cat "$MA"; >> done >> ) | sha1sum >> > > Btw, why not cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/modalias | sha1sum instead of > for cycle? :-) > > -Ph > >
