olpc-utils: hwinfo and reading mfg-data

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> this information is easy to provide by using an exit code to mean
> "missing".  probably should have done that in the first place.
> untested patch below.

If it tests alright, please go ahead and commit it :-)

>  > You may also note that the shell functions don't add a
>  > newline.
>
> i think this is unnecessary, though i guess it's harmless.  the shell
> will remove the added newline during expansion in any case, so its
> presence or absence doesn't really matter.  likewise, per your comment,
> remove null characters is unnecessary.

Maybe I've been pointlessly tidy -- had to happen once!

> i seem to have used spaces, and you used tabs.  either is fine with me,
> but we should make it uniform with one more commit.

Apologies for the mix. I don't care one way or the other.




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