Don't use udevadm shellouts if possible #3
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Replaces the use of udevadm output -- which cannot be accessed or isn't available in some VMs or containers like Travis CI build environments -- with simple file reads against sysfs. This required removing the label and uuid attributes of the Partition object temporarily until I can figure out a better way of getting this information. Issue #3
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There's no need to use udevadm to get a NIC's MAC address. We can query for /sys/class/net/$DEVICE/addr_assign_type and /sys/class/net/$DEVICE?address for this information. Addresses issue #3
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udevadm uses an in-memory database derived from parsing the PCI vendor/model information here: http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids Not sure if it's worth doing something similar :( |
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When writing https://github.com/jaypipes/ghw, I figured out a way around using udevadm for finding things like the disk serial numbers. Refactor the udevadm shellouts out of
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