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Subject: Enumerating devices and hardware conf from userland
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>I'm developping a tool running in userland (root) (a command line 
>tools) for enumerating all devices present on the machine :

>This tool must scan all hardware buses : pci, but usb, firewire, ide, 
>etc.... and retreive devices states : configure, not configured, handle 
>by a driver, not handle by a driver, witch modules is the driver.
>And I want to have all devices present inside a machine.


>In some recent Kernel, there is a way from userland, to take a handle 
>from the root hardware tree, enumeratiing first buses, and under buses, 
>witch device are connect to those buses. This is is what I am looking 
>for.
do u just need the read function on the sysctl or do something from
the deep end into kernel ?
does http://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcdownload.cgi really help？


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