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Huge upgrade, major rewrite/refactor, new features, everything is polished!!!

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Note that due to large number of internal changes to code, a separate
INTERNAL CODE CHANGES section is at the bottom. Those are changes which in
general do not impact what users see that much, but which definitely impact
working on and with inxi! They also make errors less likely, and removed many
possible bad data error situations.

BUGS:

1. Obscure, but very old Tyan Mobo used a form of dmidecode data for RAM that I'd
never gotten a dataset for before, this tripped a series of errors in inxi, which
were actually caused by small errors and failures to check certain things, as
well as simply never assigning data in corner cases. This system used only dmi
handles 6 and 7, which is a very rare setup, from the very early days of dmi
data being settled, but it was valid data, and actually inxi was supposed to support
it, because I'd never gotten a dataset containing such legacy hardware data, the
support didn't work. There were actually several bugs discovered while tracking
this down, all were corrected.

2. Going along with the cpu fixes below, there was a bug that if stepping was 0,
stepping would not show. I had not realized stepping could be 0, so did a true/false
test instead of a defined test, which makes 0 in perl always test as false. This is
corrected.

3. While going through code, discovered that missing second argument to main::grabber
would have made glabel tool (BSD I think mostly) always fail, without exception.
That explains why bsd systems were never getting glabel data, heh.

4. Many null get_size tests would not have worked because they were testing
for null array but ('','') was actually being returned, which is not a null array.
The testing and results for get_size were quite random, now hey are all the same
and consistent, and confirmed correct.

5. In unmounted devices, the match sent to @lsblk to get extended device data
would never work with dm-xx type names, failed to translate them to their
mapped name, which is what is used in lsblk matches, this is corrected.
This could lead to failures to match fs of members of luks, raid, etc,
particularly noticeable with complex logical device structures. This means
the fallback filters against internal logic volume names, various file system
type matches, would always fail.

6. A small host of further bugs found and fixed during the major refactor, but
not all of them were noted, they were just fixed, sorry, those will be lost
to history unless you compare with diffs the two versions, but that's thousands
of lines, but there were more bugs fixed than listed above, just can't remember
them all.

FIXES:

1. There was some ambiguity about when inxi falls back to showing hardware graphics
driver instead of xorg gfx driver when it can't find an xorg driver. That can happen
for instance because of wayland, or because of obscure xorg drivers not yet supported.
Now the message is very clear, it says the gfx software driver is n/a, and that it's
showing the hardware gfx driver.

2. Big redo of cpu microarch, finally handled cases where same stepping/model ID
has two micorarches listed, now that is shown clearly to users, like AMD Zen family
17, model 18, which can be either Zen or Zen+, so now it shows that ambiguity, and
a comment: note: check, like it shows for ram report when it's not sure. Shows
for instance:
arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check
in such cases, in other words, it tells users that the naming convention
basically changed during the same hardware/die cycle.

3. There were some raid component errors in the unmounted tests which is supposed
to test the raid components and remove them from the mounted list. Note that inxi
now also tests better if something is a raid component, or an lvm component, or
various other things, so unmounted will be right more often now, though it's still
not perfect since there are still more unhandled logical storage components that
will show as unmounted when tney are parts of logical volumes. Bit by bit!!

4. Part of a significant android fine tuning and fix series, for -P, android uses
different default names for partitions, so none showed, now a subset of standard
android partitions, like /System, /firmware, etc, shows. Android will never work
well though because google keeps locking down key file read/search permissions in
/sys and /proc.

5. More ARM device detections, that got tuned quite a bit and cleaned up, for
instance, it was doing case sensitive checks, but found cases where the value
is all upper case, so it was missing it. Now it does case sensitive device type
searches.

6. One of the oldest glitches in inxi was the failure to take the size of the raid
arrays versus the size totals of the raid array components led to Local Storage
results that were uselessly wrong, being based on what is now called 'raw' disk
totals, that's the raw physical total of all system disks. Now if raid is detected
the old total: used:... is expanded to: total: raw:... usable:....used:, the usable
being the actual disk space that can be used to store data. Also in the case of
LVM systems, a further item is added, lvm-free: to report the unused but available
volume group space, that is, space not currently taken by logical volumes. This
can provide a useful overview of your system storage, and is much improved over
the previous version, which was technically unable to solve that issue because
the internal structures did not support it, now they do. LVM data requires sudo/
root unfortunately, so you will see different disk raw totals depending on
if it's root or not if there is LVM RAID running.

Sample: inxi -D
Drives:    Local Storage: total: raw: 340.19 GiB usable: 276.38 GiB
           lvm-free: 84.61 GiB used: 8.49 GiB (3.1%)

lvm-free is non assigned volume group size, that is, size not assigned
to a logical volume in the volume group, but available in the volume group.
raw: is the total of all detected block devices, usable is how much of that
can be used in file systems, that is, raid is > 1 devices, but those devices
are not available for storage, only the total of the raid volume is.
Note that if you are not using LVM, you will never see lvm-free:.

7.  An anonymous user sent a dataset that contained a reasonable alternate
syntax for sensors output, that made inxi fail to get the sensors data. That was
prepending 'T' to temp items, and 'F' to fan items, which made enough sense though
I'd never seen it before, so inxi now supports that alternate sensors temp/fan
syntax, so that should expand the systems it supports by default out of the box.

8. Finally was able to resolve a long standing issue of loading File::Find, which
is only used in --debug 20-22 debugger, from top of inxi to require load in the
debugger. I'd tried to fix this before, but failed, the problem is that redhat
/fedora have broken apart Perl core modules, and made some of them into external
modules, which made inxi fail to start due to missing use of required module that
was not really required. Thanks to mrmazda for pointing this out to me, I'd tried
to get this working before but failed, but this time I figured out how to recode
some of the uses of File::Find so it would work when loaded without the package
debugger, hard to figure it, turned out a specific sub routine call in that
specific case required the parentheses that had been left off, very subtle.

9. Subtle issue, unlike most of the other device data processors, the USB
data parser did not use the remove duplicates tool, which led in some cases
to duplicated company names in the output for USB, which looks silly.

10. Somehow devtmpfs was not being detected in all cases to remove that from
partitions report, that was added to the file systen filters to make sure it
gets caught.

11. Removed LVM image/meta/data data slices from unmounted report, those are LVM
items, but they are internal LVM volumes, not available or usable. I believe
there are other data/meta type variants for different LVM features but I have
added as many types as I could find.. Also explictly now remove any _member type
item, which is always part of some other logical structure, like RAID or
LVM, those were not explicitly handled before.

12. Corrected the varous terms ZFS can use for spare drives, and due to how
those describe slightly different situations than simply spare, changed the spare
section header to Available, which is more accureate for ZFS.

ENHANCEMENTS:

1. Going along with FIX 2 is updating and adding to intel, elbrus microarch family/
model/stepping IDs (E8C2), so that is fairly up to date now.

2. Added in a very crude and highly unreliable default fallback for intel:
/sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name which will show the basic internal name used
which can be quite different from what the actual microarch name is, but the hope
is that for new intel cpus that come out after these last inxi updates, something
may show, instead of nothing. Note these names are often much more generic, like
using skylake for many different microarches.

3. More android enhancements, for androids that allow reading of /system/build.prop,
which is a very useful informative system info file, more android data will show,
like the device name and variant, and a few other specialized items. You can see if
your android device lets inxi read build.prop if you see under -S Distro:
Android 7.1 (2016-07-23) or just Android. If it shows just android, that means
it can't read that file. Showing Android however is also new, since while inxi
can't always read build.prop if that file is there, it's android, so inxi
finally can recognize it's in android, even though it can't give much info if
it's locked down. Inxi in fact did not previously know it was running in android,
which is quite different from ARM systems in some ways, but now it does.

If the data is available, it will be used in Distro: and in Machine: data to add
more information about the android version and device.

4. A big one, for -p/-P/-o/-j now shows with -x the mapped device name, not just
the /dev/dm-xx ID, which makes connecting the various new bits easier, for RAID,
Logical reports. Note that /dev/mapper/ is removed from the mapped name since
that's redundant and verbose and makes the output harder to read. For mapped
devices, the new --logical / -L report lets you drill into the devices to find
out what dm-xx is actually based on, though that is a limited feature which only
supports drilling to a depth of 2 components/devices, there can be more,
particularly for bcache, luks setups, but it's just too  hard to code that
level of depth, so something is better than nothing in this case, which
is the actual choice I was faced, the perfect in this case really is/was
the enemy of the good, as they say.

5. More big ones, for -a -p/-P/-o/-j shows kernel device major:minor number,
which again lets you trace each device around the system and report.

6. Added mdadm if root for mdraid report, that let me add a few other
details for mdraid not previously available. This added item 'state;'
to the mdraid report with right -x options.

7. Added vpu component type to ARM gfx device type detection, don't know
how video processing vcu had escaped my notice.

8. Added fio[a-z] block device, I'd never heard of that before, but saw
use of it in dataset, so learned it's real, but was never handled as a
valid block device type before, like sda, hda, vda, nvme, mmcblk,
etc. fio works the same, it's fio + [a-z] + [0-9]+ partition number.

9. Expanded to alternate syntax Elbrus cpu L1, L2, L3 reporting. Note
that in their nomenclature, L0 and L1 are actually both L1, so add those
together when detected.

10. RAM, thanks to a Mint user, antikythera, learned, and handled something
new, module 'speed:' vs module 'configured clock speed:'.
To quote from supermicro:

<<<
Question: Under dmidecode, my 'Configured Clock Speed' is lower than my
'Speed'. What does each term mean and why are they not the same?
Answer: Under dmidecode, Speed is the expected speed of the memory
(what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured Clock Speed
is what the actual speed is now. The cause could be many things but the
main possibilities are mismatching memory and using a CPU that doesn't
support your expected memory clock speed.
Please use only one type of memory and make sure that your CPU supports
your memory.
>>>

11. Since RAM was gettng a look, also changed cases where ddr ram speed is reported
in MHz, now it will show the speeds as: [speed * 2] MT/S ([speed] MHz). This
will let users make apples to apples speed comparisons between different systems.
Since MT/S is largely standard now, there's no need to translate that to MHz.

12. And, even more!! When RAM speeds are logically absurd, adds in note: check
This is from a real user's data by the way, as you can see, it triggers all
the new RAM per Device report features.

Sample:
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
  Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
  Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
  Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
  actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
  Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
  Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
  actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check

13. More disks vendor!!! More disk vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, eternity
exists, here, now, and manifests every day!! Thanks to linux-lite hardware
database for this eternally generating list. Never underestimate the
creativity of mankind to make more disk drive companies, and to release
new model IDs for existing companies. Yes, I feel that this is a metaphore
for something much larger, but what that is, I'm not entirely clear about.

CHANGES:

1. Recent kernel changes have added a lot more sensor data in /sys, although
this varies system to system, but now, if your system supports it, you can
get at least partial hdd temp reports without needing hddtemp or root. Early
results suggest that nvme may have better support than spinning disks, but it
really varies. inxi will now look for the /sys based temp first, then fall
back to the much slower and root / sudo only hddtemp. You can force hddtemp
always with --hddtemp option, which has a corresponding configuration item.

2. The long requested and awaited yet arcane and obscure feature -L/--logical,
which tries to give a reasonably good report on LVM, LUKS, VeraCrypt, as well
as handling LVM raid, both regular and thin, is now working, more or less.
This took a lot of testing and will probably not be reasonably complete for
a while, mainly because the levels of abstraction possible between lvm,
lvm raid, mdraid, LUKS, bcache, and other caching and other encryption
options are just too deep to allow for easy handling, or easy outputs.
But a very solid and good start in my view, going from nothing to something
is always a big improvement!! LVM reports require root/sudo. This will,
finally, close issue #135.

3. Going along with -L, and serving as a model for the logic of -L, was the
complete refactor of -R, RAID, which was a real mess internally,  definitely
one of the messiest and hardest to work with features of inxi before the
refactor. It's now completely cleaned up and modularized, and is easy to add
raid types, which was not possible before, now it cleanly supports zfs, mdraid,
and lvm raid, with in depth reports and added items like mdraid size, raid
component device sizes and maj:min numbers if the -a option is used. Note
that LVM RAID requires root/sudo.

4. Added some more sensors dimm, volts items, slight expansion. Note that the
possible expansion of sensors made possible by the recently upgraded sensors
output logic, as well as the new inxi internal sensors data structure,
which is far more granular than the previous version, and allows for much
more fine grained control and output, though only gpu data currently takes
advantage of this new power under the covers, although as noted, the /sys based
hdd temps use the same source, only straight from /sys, since it was actually
easier using the data directly from sys than trying to map the drive locations to
specific drives in sensors output. Well, to be accurate, since now only
board type sensors are used for the temp/fan speed, voltage, etc, reports,
the removal of entire sensor groups means less chance of wrong results.

5. To bring the ancient RAID logic to fit the rest of inxi style, made
zfs, mdraid, and lvm raid components use incrementing numbers, like cpu
cores does. This got rid of the kind of ugly hacks used previously
which were not the same for zfs or mdraid, but now they are all the same,
except that the numbers for mdraid are the actual device numbers that
mdraid supplies, and the LVM and ZFS numbers are just autoincremented,
starting at 1.

6. Changed message <root/superuser required> to <superuser required> because
it's shorter and communicates the same thing.

INTERNAL CODE CHANGES:

1. Small, transparent test, tested on Perl 5.032 for Perl 7 compatibility. All
tests passed, no legacy code issues in inxi as of now.

2. Although most users won't notice, a big chunk of inxi was refactored
internally, which is why the new -L, the revamped -R, and the fixed
disk totals finally all can work now. This may hopefully result in more
consistent output and fewer oddities and randomnesses, since more of the
methods all use the same tools now under the covers. Ths refactor also
significantly improved inxi's execution speed, by about 4-5%, but most
of those gains are not visible due to the added new features, but the
end result is new inxi runs roughly the same speed as pre 3.2.00 inxi, but
does more, and does it better, internally at least. If you have a very
good eye you may also note a few places where this manifests externally
as well. Last I checked about 10-12% of the lines of inxi had been changed,
but I think that number is higher now. Everything that could be optimized
was, everything could be made more efficient was.

3. Several core tools in inxi were expanded to work much more cleanly,
like reader(), which now supports returning just the index value you want,
that always happened on the caller end before, which led to extra code.
get_size likewise was expanded to do a string return, which let me
remove a lot of internal redundant code in creating the size unit output,
like 32 MiB. uniq() was also redone to work exclusively by reference.

4. Many bad reference and dereference practices that had slipped into inxi
from the start are mostly corrected now, array assignments use push now,
rather than assign to array, then add array to another array, and assign
those to the master array. Several unnecessary and cpu/ram intensive copying
steps, that is, were removed in many locations internally in inxi. Also
now inxi uses more direct anonymous array and hash refernce assignments,
which again removes redundant array/hash creation, copy, and assignment.

5. Also added explicit -> dereferencing arrows to make the code more clear
and readable, and to make it easier for perl to know  what is happening.
The lack of consistency actually created confusion, I was not aware of
what certain code was doing, and didn't realize it was doing the same
thing as other code because of using different methods and syntaxes for
referencing array/hash components. I probably missed some, but I got many
of them, most probably.

6. Instituted a new perl builtin sub routine rule which is: if the sub
takes 2 or more arguments, always put in parentheses, it makes the
code much easier to follow because you see the closing ), like:
push(@rows,@row); Most perl builtins that take only one arg do not
use parentheses, except length, which just looks weird when used in
math tests, that is: length($var) > 13 looks better than length $var > 13.
This resolved inconsistent uses that had grown over time, so now all the
main builtins follow these rules consistently internally.

Due to certain style elements, and the time required to carefully go through
all these rules, grep and map do not yet consistently use these rules, that's
because the tendency has been to use the grep {..test..} @array and
map {...actions...} @array

7. Mainly to deal with android failures to read standard system files due to
google locking it down, moved most file queries to use -r, is readable, rather
than -e, exists, or -f, is file, unless it only needs to know if it exists,
of course. This fixed many null data errors in android even on locked androids.

8. Added in %mapper and %dmmapper hashes to allow for easy mapping and
unmapping of mapped block devices. Got rid of other ways of doing that,
and made it consistent throughout inxi. These are globals that load once.

9. Learned that perl builtin split() has a very strange and in my view originally
terrible decision that involves treating as regex rules string characters in split
string, like split('^^',$string), which should logically be a string value, not
a ^ start search followed by a ^, but that's how it is, so that was carefully checked
and made consistent as well. Also expanded split to take advantage of the number of
splits to do, which I had only used occasionally before, but only updated field/value
splits where I have a good idea of what the data is. This is very useful when the
data is in the form of field: value, but value can contain : as well. You have to
be very careful however, since some data we do want in fact the 2nd split, but not
the subsequent ones, so I only updated the ones I was very sure about.

10. Going along with the cpu microarch fixes, updated and cleaned up all the lists
of model/stepping matches, now they are all in order and much easier to scan and
find, that had gotten sloppy over the years.

11. More ARM, moved dummy and codec device values into their own storage arrays,
that let me remove the filters against those in the other detections. Makes logic
easier to read and maintain as well.
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.TH INXI 1 "2020\-11\-11" inxi "inxi manual"
.TH INXI 1 "2020\-12\-15" inxi "inxi manual"
.SH NAME
inxi \- Command line system information script for console and IRC
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ inxi \- Command line system information script for console and IRC
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBinxi\fR
\fBinxi\fR [\fB\-AbBCdDfFGhijJIlmMnNopPrRsSuUVwzZ\fR]
\fBinxi\fR [\fB\-AbBCdDfFGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUVwzZ\fR]
\fBinxi\fR [\fB\-c NUMBER\fR]
[\fB\-\-sensors\-exclude SENSORS\fR] [\fB\-\-sensors\-use SENSORS\fR]
@ -173,11 +173,21 @@ few more features.
.B \-D\fR,\fB \-\-disk\fR
Show Hard Disk info. Shows total disk space and used percentage. The disk used
percentage includes space used by swap partition(s), since those are not usable
for data storage. Note that with RAID disks, the percentage will be wrong since
the total is computed from the disk sizes, but used is computed from mounted
partition used percentages. This small defect may get corrected in the future.
Also, unmounted partitions are not counted in disk use percentages since inxi
has no access to the used amount.
for data storage. Also, unmounted partitions are not counted in disk use percentages
since inxi has no access to the used amount.
If the system has RAID or other logical storage, and if inxi can determine
the size of those vs their components, you will see the storage total raw and usable
sizes, plus the percent used of the usable size. The no argument short form
of inxi will show only the usable (or total if no usable) and used percent.
If there is no logical storage detected, only \fBtotal:\fR and \fBused:\fR will
show. Sample (with RAID logical size calculated):
\fBLocal Storage: total: raw: 5.49 TiB usable: 2.80 TiB used: 1.35 TiB (48.3%)\fR
Without logical storage detected:
\fBLocal Storage: total: 2.89 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (52.3%)\fR
Also shows per disk information: Disk ID, type (if present), vendor (if detected),
model, and size. See \fBExtra Data Options\fR (\fB\-x\fR options) and
@ -284,6 +294,81 @@ The \fBrev: 2.0\fR item refers to the USB revision number, like \fB1.0\fR or
Show partition labels. Default: main partitions \fB\-P\fR. For full \fB\-p\fR output,
use: \fB\-pl\fR.
.TP
.B \-L\fR, \fB\-\-logical\fR
Show Logical volume information, for LVM, LUKS, bcache, MultiPath, etc. Shows
size, free space (for LVM VG). For LVM, shows \fBDevice\-[xx]: VG:\fR
(Volume Group) size/free, \fBLV\-[xx]\fR (Logical Volume). LV shows type,
size, and components. Note that components are made up of either containers
(aka, logical devices), or physical devices. The full report requires sudo/root.
Logical block devices can be thought of as devices that are made up out
of either other logical devices, or physical devices. inxi does its best
to show what each logical device is made out of. RAID devices form a subset
of all possible Logical devices, but have their own section, \fB\-R\fR.
If \fB\-R\fR is used with \fB\-Lxx\fR, \fB\-Lxx\fR will not show RAID
information for LVM RAID devices since it's redundant. If \fB\-R\fR is
not used, a simple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in \fB\-Lxx\fR.
\fB\-Lxx\fR also shows all components and devices. Note that since
components can go in many levels, each level per primary component is
indicated by either another 'c', or ends with a 'p' device, the physical
device. The number of c's or p's indicates the depth, so you can see which
component belongs to which.
\fB\-L\fR shows only the top level components/devices (like \fB\-R\fR).
\fB\-La\fR shows component/device size, maj:min ID, mapped name
(if applicable), and puts each component/device on its own line.
Sample:
\fBDevice\-10: mybackup type: LUKS dm: dm\-28 size: 6.36 GiB Components: c\-1: md1
cc\-1: dm\-26 ppp\-1: sdj2 cc\-2: dm\-27 ppp\-1: sdk2\fR
.nf
\fBLV-5: lvm_raid1 type: raid1 dm: dm\-16 size: 4.88 GiB
RAID: stripes: 2 sync: idle copied: 100% mismatches: 0
Components: c\-1: dm\-10 pp\-1: sdd1 c\-2: dm\-11 pp\-1: sdd1 c\-3: dm\-13
pp\-1: sde1 c\-4: dm\-15 pp\-1: sde1\fR
.fi
It is easier to follow the flow of components and devices using \fB\-y1\fR. In
this example, there is one primary component (c\-1), md1, which is made up of two
components (cc\-1,2), dm\-26 and dm\-27. These are respectively made from physical
devices (p\-1) sdj2 and sdk2.
.nf
\fBDevice-10: mybackup
maj-min: 254:28
type: LUKS
dm: dm-28
size: 6.36 GiB
Components:
c\-1: md1
maj\-min: 9:1
size: 6.37 GiB
cc-1: dm\-26
maj-min: 254:26
mapped: vg5\-level1a
size: 12.28 GiB
ppp\-1: sdj2
maj\-min: 8:146
size: 12.79 GiB
cc\-2: dm\-27
maj\-min: 254:27
mapped: vg5\-level1b
size: 6.38 GiB
ppp-1: sdk2
maj\-min: 8:162
size: 12.79 GiB\fR
.fi
Other types of logical block handling like LUKS, bcache, multipath,
show as:
\fBDevice\-[xx] [name/id] type: [LUKS|Crypto|bcache|MultiPath]:\fR
.TP
.B \-m\fR,\fB \-\-memory\fR
Memory (RAM) data. Does not display with \fB\-b\fR or \fB\-F\fR unless you use \fB\-m\fR
@ -310,6 +395,30 @@ will put this data into \fB/sys\fR, and make it real data, taken from the actual
not dmi data. For most people, the data will be right, but a significant percentage of
users will have either a wrong max module size, if present, or max capacity.
Under dmidecode, \fBSpeed:\fR is the expected speed of the memory
(what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and \fBConfigured Clock Speed:\fR
is what the actual speed is now. To handle this, if speed and configured speed values
are different, you will see this instead:
\fBspeed: spec: [specified speed] MT/S actual: [actual] MT/S\fR
Also, if DDR, and speed in MHz, will change to: \fBspeed: [speed] MT/S ([speed] MHz\fR
If the detected speed is logically absurd, like 1 MT/s or 69910 MT/s, adds:
\fBnote: check\fR. Sample:
.nf
\fBMemory:
RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check\fR
.fi
See \fB\-\-memory\-modules\fR and \fB\-\-memory\-short\fR if you want a shorter report.
.TP
@ -370,9 +479,10 @@ Show full Partition information (\fB\-P\fR plus all other detected mounted parti
.TP
.B \-P\fR,\fB \-\-partitions\fR
Show basic Partition information.
Shows, if detected: \fB/ /boot /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/tmp /var/log\fR.
Shows, if detected: \fB/ /boot /boot/efi /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/tmp
/var/log\fR (for android, shows \fB/cache /data /firmware /system\fR).
If \fB\-\-swap\fR is not used, shows active swap partitions (never shows file or
zram type swap).
zram type swap).
Use \fB\-p\fR to see all mounted partitions.
.TP
@ -418,15 +528,19 @@ See \fB\-rx\fR, \fB\-rxx\fR, and \fB\-ra\fR for installed package count informat
.TP
.B \-R\fR,\fB \-\-raid\fR
Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels and components, and
extra data with \fB\-x\fR / \fB\-xx\fR.
Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, device/array size,
and components. See extra data with \fB\-x\fR / \fB\-xx\fR.
md\-raid: If device is resyncing, also shows resync progress line.
Note: Only md\-raid and ZFS are currently supported. Other software RAID types could
be added, but only if users supply all data required, and if the software
Note: Only md\-raid, ZFS and hardware RAID are currently supported.
Other software RAID types may be added, if the software
RAID actually can be made to give the required output.
The component ID numbers work like this: mdraid: the numerator
is the actual mdraid component number; ZFS: the numerator is
auto-incremented counter only. Eg. \fBOnline: 1: sdb1\fR
If hardware RAID is detected, shows basic information. Due to complexity
of adding hardware RAID device disk / RAID reports, those will only be added
if there is demand, and reasonable reporting tools.
@ -474,8 +588,8 @@ Make sure that there is no space between letters and numbers (e.g. write as \fB\
.TP
.B \-t m\fR
\- memory only. With \fB\-x\fR, also shows CPU for that process on same line.
If the \-I line is not triggered, will also show the system RAM used/total
information.
If the \fB\-I\fR or \fB\-m\fR lines are not triggered, will also show the
system RAM used/total information.
.TP
.B \-t cm\fR
@ -557,9 +671,9 @@ USB (\fB\-J\fR); triggers \fB\-xx\fR extra data option.
.TP
.B \-v 8
\- All system data available. Adds Repos (\fB\-r\fR), PCI slots (\fB\-\-slots\fR),
processes (\fB\-tcm\fR), admin (\fB\-\-admin\fR). Useful for testing output and to
see what data you can get from your system.
\- All system data available. Adds Logical (\fB\-L\fR), Repos (\fB\-r\fR),
PCI slots (\fB\-\-slots\fR), processes (\fB\-tcm\fR), admin (\fB\-\-admin\fR).
Useful for testing output and to see what data you can get from your system.
.TP
.B \-w\fR,\fB \-\-weather\fR
@ -687,10 +801,14 @@ have this feature.
\- Adds CPU microarchitecture + revision (e.g. Sandy Bridge, K8, ARMv8, P6,
etc.). Only shows data if detected. Newer microarchitectures will have
to be added as they appear, and require the CPU family ID and model ID.
to be added as they appear, and require the CPU family ID, model ID,
and stepping.
Examples: \fBarch: Sandy Bridge rev: 2\fR, \fBarch: K8 rev.F+ rev: 2\fR
If unable to non\-ambiguosly determine architecture, will show something like:
\fBarch: Amber Lake note: check rev: 9\fR
.TP
.B \-x \-d\fR
\- Adds more items to \fBFeatures\fR line of optical drive;
@ -698,11 +816,33 @@ dds rev version to optical drive.
.TP
.B \-x \-D\fR
\- Adds HDD temperature with disk data if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root
\- Adds HDD temperature with disk data.
Method 1: if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root
or if you have added to \fB/etc/sudoers\fR (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):
.B <username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)
Method 2: systems running Linux kernels ~5.8 and newer may have drive temp data
available from /sys. If your system has /sys hwmon drive data, the temps
will come from /sys data for each drive with that data, and will not require
root or hddtemp!! This method is MUCH faster than using hddtemp!
If you see drive temps running as regular user and you did not configure system
to use sudo hddtemp, then your system supports this feature. Sometimes one type
of drive will have the /sys temp data, and another won't, it varies widely.
If no /sys data is found, inxi will try to use hddtemp methods instead
for that drive.
Hint: is /sys sourced, the temps will be to 1 decimal, like 34.8, if hddtemp
sourced, they will be integers.
You can force use of \fBhddtemp\fR for all drives using \fB\-\-hddtemp\fR.
\- If free LVM volume group size detected (root required), show \fBlvm-free:\fR
on Local Storage line. This is how much unused space the VGs contain, that is,
space not assigned to LVs.
.TP
.B \-x \-G\fR
\- Adds (if available and/or relevant) \fBvendor:\fR item, which shows
@ -759,10 +899,19 @@ discover those.
\- If in shell (i.e. not in IRC client), adds shell version number, if available.
.TP
.B \-x \-j\fR, \fB\-x \-\-swap\fR
Add \fBmapper:\fR. See \fB\-x \-o\fR.
.TP
.B \-x \-J\fR (\fB\-\-usb\fR)
\- For Devices, adds driver(s).
.TP
.B \-x \-L\fR, \fB\-x \-\-logical\fR
\- Adds \fBdm: dm-x\fR to VG > LV and other Device types. This can help tracking
down which device belongs to what.
.TP
.B \-x \-m\fR, \fB\-\-memory\-modules\fR
\- If present, adds maximum memory module/device size in the Array line.
@ -780,6 +929,13 @@ specific vendor [product] information.
\- Adds PCI Bus ID/USB ID number of each Network card.
.TP
.B \-x \-o\fR, \fB\-x \-p\fR, \fB\-x \-P\fR
\- Adds \fBmapper:\fR (the \fB/dev/mapper/\fR partitioni ID)
if mapped partition.
Example: \fBID-4: /home ... dev: /dev/dm-6 mapped: ar0-home\fR
.TP
.B \-x \-r\fR
\- Adds Package info. See \fB\-Ix\fR
@ -901,6 +1057,15 @@ swap types (for \fB\-j\fR).
.B \-xx \-J\fR (\fB\-\-usb\fR)
\- Adds vendor:chip id.
.TP
.B \-xx \-L\fR, \fB\-xx \-\-logical\fR
\- Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta data volumes.
\- Adds full list of Components, sub\-components, and their physical devices.
\- For LVM RAID, adds a RAID report line (if not \fB\-R\fR). Read up on LVM
documentation to better understand their use of the term 'stripes'.
.TP
.B \-xx \-m\fR, \fB\-\-memory\-modules\fR
\- Adds memory device Manufacturer.
@ -1137,6 +1302,8 @@ Using \fBsmartctl\fR (requires sudo/root privileges).
\- Adds SATA type (eg 1.0, 2.6, 3.0) if a SATA device.
\- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
\- Adds SMART report line: status, enabled/disabled, health, powered on,
cycles, and some error cases if out of range values. Note that for Pre\-fail items,
it will show the VALUE and THRESHOLD numbers. It will also fall back for unknown
@ -1241,7 +1408,7 @@ Info:
.fi
.TP
.B \-a \-j\fR, \fB\-a \-P\fR , \fB\-a \-P\fR
.B \-a \-j\fR, \fB\-a \-P\fR [swap], \fB\-a \-P\fR [swap]
\- Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indicate
if the value is the default value or not (Linux only, and only if available).
If not the default value, shows default value as well, e.g.
@ -1254,6 +1421,15 @@ For \fB\-j\fR row 1 output:
\fBKernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 90 (default 100)\fR
\- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
.TP
.B \-a \-L\fR
\- Expands Component report, shows size / maj-min of components and devices, and
mapped name for logical components. Puts each component/device on its own line.
\- Adds maj-min to LV and other devices.
.TP
.B \-a \-n\fR, \fB\-a \-N\fR, \fB\-a \-i\fR
\- Adds, if present, possible \fBalternate:\fR kernel modules capable of driving
@ -1262,6 +1438,10 @@ modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it lists a module does NOT mean
available in the system, it's just something the kernel knows could possibly be used
instead.
.TP
.B \-a \-o\fR
\- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
.TP
.B \-a \-p\fR,\fB\-a \-P\fR
\- Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, partition table, e.g.
@ -1277,10 +1457,19 @@ not the raw size.
\- Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root and blockdev).
\- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).
.TP
.B \-a \-r\fR
\- Adds Packages. See \fB\-Ia\fR
.TP
.B \-a \-R\fR
\- Adds device kernel major:minor number (mdraid, Linux only).
\- Adds, if available, component size, major:minor number, state (Linux only).
Turns Component report to 1 component per line if size and major:minor present.
.TP
.B \-a \-S\fR
\- Adds kernel boot parameters to \fBKernel\fR section (if detected). Support
@ -1346,6 +1535,10 @@ e.g. \fB\-M\fR or \fB\-B\fR.
.B \-\-downloader [curl|fetch|perl|wget]\fR
Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.
.TP
.B \-\-hddtemp\fR
Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for disks.
.TP
.B \-\-host\fR
Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file value (if set):
@ -1416,7 +1609,7 @@ Overrides user set \fBSENSOR_FORCE\fR configuration value. Restores default beha
Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions (\fB\-U\fR, \fB\-w\fR,
\fB\-W\fR, \fB\-i\fR). Use if your system does not have current SSL certificate
lists, or if you have problems making a connection for any reason. Works with
\fBWget\fR, \fBCurl\fR, \fBPerl HTTP::Tiny\fRand \fBFetch\fR.
\fBWget\fR, \fBCurl\fR, \fBPerl HTTP::Tiny\fR and \fBFetch\fR.
.TP
.B \-\-no\-sudo\fR
@ -1618,7 +1811,7 @@ For alternate ftp upload locations: Example:
.SH DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES
Only used the following in conjunction with \fB\-\-debug 2[012]\fR, and only
Only use the following in conjunction with \fB\-\-debug 2[012]\fR, and only
use if you experienced a failure or hang, or were instructed to do so.
.TP

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=====================================================================================
Version: 3.2.00
Patch: 00
Date: 2020-12-15
-----------------------------------
Changes:
-----------------------------------
Huge upgrade, major rewrite/refactor, new features, everything is polished!!!
Note that due to large number of internal changes to code, a separate
INTERNAL CODE CHANGES section is at the bottom. Those are changes which in
general do not impact what users see that much, but which definitely impact
working on and with inxi! They also make errors less likely, and removed many
possible bad data error situations.
BUGS:
1. Obscure, but very old Tyan Mobo used a form of dmidecode data for RAM that I'd
never gotten a dataset for before, this tripped a series of errors in inxi, which
were actually caused by small errors and failures to check certain things, as
well as simply never assigning data in corner cases. This system used only dmi
handles 6 and 7, which is a very rare setup, from the very early days of dmi
data being settled, but it was valid data, and actually inxi was supposed to support
it, because I'd never gotten a dataset containing such legacy hardware data, the
support didn't work. There were actually several bugs discovered while tracking
this down, all were corrected.
2. Going along with the cpu fixes below, there was a bug that if stepping was 0,
stepping would not show. I had not realized stepping could be 0, so did a true/false
test instead of a defined test, which makes 0 in perl always test as false. This is
corrected.
3. While going through code, discovered that missing second argument to main::grabber
would have made glabel tool (BSD I think mostly) always fail, without exception.
That explains why bsd systems were never getting glabel data, heh.
4. Many null get_size tests would not have worked because they were testing
for null array but ('','') was actually being returned, which is not a null array.
The testing and results for get_size were quite random, now hey are all the same
and consistent, and confirmed correct.
5. In unmounted devices, the match sent to @lsblk to get extended device data
would never work with dm-xx type names, failed to translate them to their
mapped name, which is what is used in lsblk matches, this is corrected.
This could lead to failures to match fs of members of luks, raid, etc,
particularly noticeable with complex logical device structures. This means
the fallback filters against internal logic volume names, various file system
type matches, would always fail.
6. A small host of further bugs found and fixed during the major refactor, but
not all of them were noted, they were just fixed, sorry, those will be lost
to history unless you compare with diffs the two versions, but that's thousands
of lines, but there were more bugs fixed than listed above, just can't remember
them all.
FIXES:
1. There was some ambiguity about when inxi falls back to showing hardware graphics
driver instead of xorg gfx driver when it can't find an xorg driver. That can happen
for instance because of wayland, or because of obscure xorg drivers not yet supported.
Now the message is very clear, it says the gfx software driver is n/a, and that it's
showing the hardware gfx driver.
2. Big redo of cpu microarch, finally handled cases where same stepping/model ID
has two micorarches listed, now that is shown clearly to users, like AMD Zen family
17, model 18, which can be either Zen or Zen+, so now it shows that ambiguity, and
a comment: note: check, like it shows for ram report when it's not sure. Shows
for instance:
arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check
in such cases, in other words, it tells users that the naming convention
basically changed during the same hardware/die cycle.
3. There were some raid component errors in the unmounted tests which is supposed
to test the raid components and remove them from the mounted list. Note that inxi
now also tests better if something is a raid component, or an lvm component, or
various other things, so unmounted will be right more often now, though it's still
not perfect since there are still more unhandled logical storage components that
will show as unmounted when tney are parts of logical volumes. Bit by bit!!
4. Part of a significant android fine tuning and fix series, for -P, android uses
different default names for partitions, so none showed, now a subset of standard
android partitions, like /System, /firmware, etc, shows. Android will never work
well though because google keeps locking down key file read/search permissions in
/sys and /proc.
5. More ARM device detections, that got tuned quite a bit and cleaned up, for
instance, it was doing case sensitive checks, but found cases where the value
is all upper case, so it was missing it. Now it does case sensitive device type
searches.
6. One of the oldest glitches in inxi was the failure to take the size of the raid
arrays versus the size totals of the raid array components led to Local Storage
results that were uselessly wrong, being based on what is now called 'raw' disk
totals, that's the raw physical total of all system disks. Now if raid is detected
the old total: used:... is expanded to: total: raw:... usable:....used:, the usable
being the actual disk space that can be used to store data. Also in the case of
LVM systems, a further item is added, lvm-free: to report the unused but available
volume group space, that is, space not currently taken by logical volumes. This
can provide a useful overview of your system storage, and is much improved over
the previous version, which was technically unable to solve that issue because
the internal structures did not support it, now they do. LVM data requires sudo/
root unfortunately, so you will see different disk raw totals depending on
if it's root or not if there is LVM RAID running.
Sample: inxi -D
Drives: Local Storage: total: raw: 340.19 GiB usable: 276.38 GiB
lvm-free: 84.61 GiB used: 8.49 GiB (3.1%)
lvm-free is non assigned volume group size, that is, size not assigned
to a logical volume in the volume group, but available in the volume group.
raw: is the total of all detected block devices, usable is how much of that
can be used in file systems, that is, raid is > 1 devices, but those devices
are not available for storage, only the total of the raid volume is.
Note that if you are not using LVM, you will never see lvm-free:.
7. An anonymous user sent a dataset that contained a reasonable alternate
syntax for sensors output, that made inxi fail to get the sensors data. That was
prepending 'T' to temp items, and 'F' to fan items, which made enough sense though
I'd never seen it before, so inxi now supports that alternate sensors temp/fan
syntax, so that should expand the systems it supports by default out of the box.
8. Finally was able to resolve a long standing issue of loading File::Find, which
is only used in --debug 20-22 debugger, from top of inxi to require load in the
debugger. I'd tried to fix this before, but failed, the problem is that redhat
/fedora have broken apart Perl core modules, and made some of them into external
modules, which made inxi fail to start due to missing use of required module that
was not really required. Thanks to mrmazda for pointing this out to me, I'd tried
to get this working before but failed, but this time I figured out how to recode
some of the uses of File::Find so it would work when loaded without the package
debugger, hard to figure it, turned out a specific sub routine call in that
specific case required the parentheses that had been left off, very subtle.
9. Subtle issue, unlike most of the other device data processors, the USB
data parser did not use the remove duplicates tool, which led in some cases
to duplicated company names in the output for USB, which looks silly.
10. Somehow devtmpfs was not being detected in all cases to remove that from
partitions report, that was added to the file systen filters to make sure it
gets caught.
11. Removed LVM image/meta/data data slices from unmounted report, those are LVM
items, but they are internal LVM volumes, not available or usable. I believe
there are other data/meta type variants for different LVM features but I have
added as many types as I could find.. Also explictly now remove any _member type
item, which is always part of some other logical structure, like RAID or
LVM, those were not explicitly handled before.
12. Corrected the varous terms ZFS can use for spare drives, and due to how
those describe slightly different situations than simply spare, changed the spare
section header to Available, which is more accureate for ZFS.
ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with FIX 2 is updating and adding to intel, elbrus microarch family/
model/stepping IDs (E8C2), so that is fairly up to date now.
2. Added in a very crude and highly unreliable default fallback for intel:
/sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name which will show the basic internal name used
which can be quite different from what the actual microarch name is, but the hope
is that for new intel cpus that come out after these last inxi updates, something
may show, instead of nothing. Note these names are often much more generic, like
using skylake for many different microarches.
3. More android enhancements, for androids that allow reading of /system/build.prop,
which is a very useful informative system info file, more android data will show,
like the device name and variant, and a few other specialized items. You can see if
your android device lets inxi read build.prop if you see under -S Distro:
Android 7.1 (2016-07-23) or just Android. If it shows just android, that means
it can't read that file. Showing Android however is also new, since while inxi
can't always read build.prop if that file is there, it's android, so inxi
finally can recognize it's in android, even though it can't give much info if
it's locked down. Inxi in fact did not previously know it was running in android,
which is quite different from ARM systems in some ways, but now it does.
If the data is available, it will be used in Distro: and in Machine: data to add
more information about the android version and device.
4. A big one, for -p/-P/-o/-j now shows with -x the mapped device name, not just
the /dev/dm-xx ID, which makes connecting the various new bits easier, for RAID,
Logical reports. Note that /dev/mapper/ is removed from the mapped name since
that's redundant and verbose and makes the output harder to read. For mapped
devices, the new --logical / -L report lets you drill into the devices to find
out what dm-xx is actually based on, though that is a limited feature which only
supports drilling to a depth of 2 components/devices, there can be more,
particularly for bcache, luks setups, but it's just too hard to code that
level of depth, so something is better than nothing in this case, which
is the actual choice I was faced, the perfect in this case really is/was
the enemy of the good, as they say.
5. More big ones, for -a -p/-P/-o/-j shows kernel device major:minor number,
which again lets you trace each device around the system and report.
6. Added mdadm if root for mdraid report, that let me add a few other
details for mdraid not previously available. This added item 'state;'
to the mdraid report with right -x options.
7. Added vpu component type to ARM gfx device type detection, don't know
how video processing vcu had escaped my notice.
8. Added fio[a-z] block device, I'd never heard of that before, but saw
use of it in dataset, so learned it's real, but was never handled as a
valid block device type before, like sda, hda, vda, nvme, mmcblk,
etc. fio works the same, it's fio + [a-z] + [0-9]+ partition number.
9. Expanded to alternate syntax Elbrus cpu L1, L2, L3 reporting. Note
that in their nomenclature, L0 and L1 are actually both L1, so add those
together when detected.
10. RAM, thanks to a Mint user, antikythera, learned, and handled something
new, module 'speed:' vs module 'configured clock speed:'.
To quote from supermicro:
<<<
Question: Under dmidecode, my 'Configured Clock Speed' is lower than my
'Speed'. What does each term mean and why are they not the same?
Answer: Under dmidecode, Speed is the expected speed of the memory
(what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured Clock Speed
is what the actual speed is now. The cause could be many things but the
main possibilities are mismatching memory and using a CPU that doesn't
support your expected memory clock speed.
Please use only one type of memory and make sure that your CPU supports
your memory.
>>>
11. Since RAM was gettng a look, also changed cases where ddr ram speed is reported
in MHz, now it will show the speeds as: [speed * 2] MT/S ([speed] MHz). This
will let users make apples to apples speed comparisons between different systems.
Since MT/S is largely standard now, there's no need to translate that to MHz.
12. And, even more!! When RAM speeds are logically absurd, adds in note: check
This is from a real user's data by the way, as you can see, it triggers all
the new RAM per Device report features.
Sample:
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check
13. More disks vendor!!! More disk vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, eternity
exists, here, now, and manifests every day!! Thanks to linux-lite hardware
database for this eternally generating list. Never underestimate the
creativity of mankind to make more disk drive companies, and to release
new model IDs for existing companies. Yes, I feel that this is a metaphore
for something much larger, but what that is, I'm not entirely clear about.
CHANGES:
1. Recent kernel changes have added a lot more sensor data in /sys, although
this varies system to system, but now, if your system supports it, you can
get at least partial hdd temp reports without needing hddtemp or root. Early
results suggest that nvme may have better support than spinning disks, but it
really varies. inxi will now look for the /sys based temp first, then fall
back to the much slower and root / sudo only hddtemp. You can force hddtemp
always with --hddtemp option, which has a corresponding configuration item.
2. The long requested and awaited yet arcane and obscure feature -L/--logical,
which tries to give a reasonably good report on LVM, LUKS, VeraCrypt, as well
as handling LVM raid, both regular and thin, is now working, more or less.
This took a lot of testing and will probably not be reasonably complete for
a while, mainly because the levels of abstraction possible between lvm,
lvm raid, mdraid, LUKS, bcache, and other caching and other encryption
options are just too deep to allow for easy handling, or easy outputs.
But a very solid and good start in my view, going from nothing to something
is always a big improvement!! LVM reports require root/sudo. This will,
finally, close issue #135.
3. Going along with -L, and serving as a model for the logic of -L, was the
complete refactor of -R, RAID, which was a real mess internally, definitely
one of the messiest and hardest to work with features of inxi before the
refactor. It's now completely cleaned up and modularized, and is easy to add
raid types, which was not possible before, now it cleanly supports zfs, mdraid,
and lvm raid, with in depth reports and added items like mdraid size, raid
component device sizes and maj:min numbers if the -a option is used. Note
that LVM RAID requires root/sudo.
4. Added some more sensors dimm, volts items, slight expansion. Note that the
possible expansion of sensors made possible by the recently upgraded sensors
output logic, as well as the new inxi internal sensors data structure,
which is far more granular than the previous version, and allows for much
more fine grained control and output, though only gpu data currently takes
advantage of this new power under the covers, although as noted, the /sys based
hdd temps use the same source, only straight from /sys, since it was actually
easier using the data directly from sys than trying to map the drive locations to
specific drives in sensors output. Well, to be accurate, since now only
board type sensors are used for the temp/fan speed, voltage, etc, reports,
the removal of entire sensor groups means less chance of wrong results.
5. To bring the ancient RAID logic to fit the rest of inxi style, made
zfs, mdraid, and lvm raid components use incrementing numbers, like cpu
cores does. This got rid of the kind of ugly hacks used previously
which were not the same for zfs or mdraid, but now they are all the same,
except that the numbers for mdraid are the actual device numbers that
mdraid supplies, and the LVM and ZFS numbers are just autoincremented,
starting at 1.
6. Changed message <root/superuser required> to <superuser required> because
it's shorter and communicates the same thing.
INTERNAL CODE CHANGES:
1. Small, transparent test, tested on Perl 5.032 for Perl 7 compatibility. All
tests passed, no legacy code issues in inxi as of now.
2. Although most users won't notice, a big chunk of inxi was refactored
internally, which is why the new -L, the revamped -R, and the fixed
disk totals finally all can work now. This may hopefully result in more
consistent output and fewer oddities and randomnesses, since more of the
methods all use the same tools now under the covers. Ths refactor also
significantly improved inxi's execution speed, by about 4-5%, but most
of those gains are not visible due to the added new features, but the
end result is new inxi runs roughly the same speed as pre 3.2.00 inxi, but
does more, and does it better, internally at least. If you have a very
good eye you may also note a few places where this manifests externally
as well. Last I checked about 10-12% of the lines of inxi had been changed,
but I think that number is higher now. Everything that could be optimized
was, everything could be made more efficient was.
3. Several core tools in inxi were expanded to work much more cleanly,
like reader(), which now supports returning just the index value you want,
that always happened on the caller end before, which led to extra code.
get_size likewise was expanded to do a string return, which let me
remove a lot of internal redundant code in creating the size unit output,
like 32 MiB. uniq() was also redone to work exclusively by reference.
4. Many bad reference and dereference practices that had slipped into inxi
from the start are mostly corrected now, array assignments use push now,
rather than assign to array, then add array to another array, and assign
those to the master array. Several unnecessary and cpu/ram intensive copying
steps, that is, were removed in many locations internally in inxi. Also
now inxi uses more direct anonymous array and hash refernce assignments,
which again removes redundant array/hash creation, copy, and assignment.
5. Also added explicit -> dereferencing arrows to make the code more clear
and readable, and to make it easier for perl to know what is happening.
The lack of consistency actually created confusion, I was not aware of
what certain code was doing, and didn't realize it was doing the same
thing as other code because of using different methods and syntaxes for
referencing array/hash components. I probably missed some, but I got many
of them, most probably.
6. Instituted a new perl builtin sub routine rule which is: if the sub
takes 2 or more arguments, always put in parentheses, it makes the
code much easier to follow because you see the closing ), like:
push(@rows,@row); Most perl builtins that take only one arg do not
use parentheses, except length, which just looks weird when used in
math tests, that is: length($var) > 13 looks better than length $var > 13.
This resolved inconsistent uses that had grown over time, so now all the
main builtins follow these rules consistently internally.
Due to certain style elements, and the time required to carefully go through
all these rules, grep and map do not yet consistently use these rules, that's
because the tendency has been to use the grep {..test..} @array and
map {...actions...} @array
7. Mainly to deal with android failures to read standard system files due to
google locking it down, moved most file queries to use -r, is readable, rather
than -e, exists, or -f, is file, unless it only needs to know if it exists,
of course. This fixed many null data errors in android even on locked androids.
8. Added in %mapper and %dmmapper hashes to allow for easy mapping and
unmapping of mapped block devices. Got rid of other ways of doing that,
and made it consistent throughout inxi. These are globals that load once.
9. Learned that perl builtin split() has a very strange and in my view originally
terrible decision that involves treating as regex rules string characters in split
string, like split('^^',$string), which should logically be a string value, not
a ^ start search followed by a ^, but that's how it is, so that was carefully checked
and made consistent as well. Also expanded split to take advantage of the number of
splits to do, which I had only used occasionally before, but only updated field/value
splits where I have a good idea of what the data is. This is very useful when the
data is in the form of field: value, but value can contain : as well. You have to
be very careful however, since some data we do want in fact the 2nd split, but not
the subsequent ones, so I only updated the ones I was very sure about.
10. Going along with the cpu microarch fixes, updated and cleaned up all the lists
of model/stepping matches, now they are all in order and much easier to scan and
find, that had gotten sloppy over the years.
11. More ARM, moved dummy and codec device values into their own storage arrays,
that let me remove the filters against those in the other detections. Makes logic
easier to read and maintain as well.
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-- Harald Hope - Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:08:05 -0800
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Version: 3.1.09
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