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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: lshw -short
started a blog:
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:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Partington <>
wrote:

> Well your paths of discovery are pretty educational. Getting them on a
> blog that could be indexed and searched could help some folks...
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> why would I blog? I don't know anything..... unless it were a means to
>> teach me.... errr.... reinforce what I've learned.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:18 PM, John J. Macey <> wrote:
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
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>>> On 02/02/2015 02:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> thank you oh wise ones
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Todd Millecam <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, if you want to manipulate the way the kernel uses a device,
>>>> you can usually find it under a directory like:
>>>>
>>>> /proc/bus/
>>>> or
>>>> /sys/bus/
>>>>
>>>> Using this, you can (often) deactivate a device and if the motherboard
>>>> supports it, pull it out and replace it without rebooting the machine.
>>>> Very handy for replacing PCI raid cards and faulty RAM without incurring
>>>> any downtime.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:47 AM, James Mcphee <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> which bus and slot it sits in. like if you wanted to know which card
>>>>> or whatnot to yank.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Michael Havens <>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I found the answer!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is "very
>>>>>> much like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page which states:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *hw path* A numerical string of hardware components, notated
>>>>>> sequentially from the bus address to the device
>>>>>> address. Typically, the initial number is
>>>>>> appended by slash (*/*), to represent a bus
>>>>>> converter (if required by your machine), and
>>>>>> subsequent numbers are separated by periods (*.*).
>>>>>> Each number represents the location of a hardware
>>>>>> component on the path to the device.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a hardware
>>>>>> component' means?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens <>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option and it gives
>>>>>>> me a list:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  H/W path  Device  Class          Description
>>>>>>> ============================================
>>>>>>>                   system         Computer
>>>>>>> /0                bus            Motherboard
>>>>>>> /0/1              memory         3888MiB System memory
>>>>>>> /0/6              processor      AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
>>>>>>> /0/0              memory         RAM memory
>>>>>>> etc...

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?
>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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