Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: lshw

We run 'lshw -short -disable scsi' in a cron job, and get alerts when
the output changes, which I would have expected only to occur when the
hardware has actually been changed.  However, on some of our machines
we see spurious changes, e.g.

--- new        2009-01-09 23:10:10.000000000 +0000
+++ old        2009-01-06 19:34:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@
 /0/400/710              memory     16KiB L1 cache
 /0/400/720              memory     1MiB L2 cache
 /0/400/730              memory     L3 cache
-/0/400/0.1              processor  Logical CPU
-/0/400/0.2              processor  Logical CPU
+/0/400/6.1              processor  Logical CPU
+/0/400/6.2              processor  Logical CPU
 /0/406                  processor  Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
 /0/406/716              memory     16KiB L1 cache
 /0/406/726              memory     1MiB L2 cache
 /0/406/736              memory     L3 cache
-/0/406/0.1              processor  Logical CPU
-/0/406/0.2              processor  Logical CPU
+/0/406/6.1              processor  Logical CPU
+/0/406/6.2              processor  Logical CPU
 /0/1000                 memory     4GiB System Memory
 /0/1000/0               memory     512MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 333 MHz (3.0 ns)
 /0/1000/1               memory     512MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 333 MHz (3.0 ns)

So far this seems limited to HP DL380 G4s.

** Affects: lshw (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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lshw output is not stable between runs on unchanging hardware
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315921
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