Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 26 Oct 1999 00:13:52 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> writes:
Dan> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Dan Hollis wrote: > /proc/pci is going away. Try lspci instead. >> Are you sure? After a patch in the 2.3.x series, /proc/pci was >> made non-optional.
Dan> Interesting. Does this mean we will be stuck forever with an Dan> ever-growing unswappable static text table in the kernel?
Dan> At least 2.2.x said printk(KERN_INFO "%s uses obsolete /proc/pci Dan> interface\n",
Dan> Has this decision been reversed?
Linus posted recently that he liked it and wanted to keep it if I am not mistaken.
Besides, the table doesn't need to be a large static ever growing table, all you do is to copy the entries for the PCI devices you found to a new list and delete the rest.
Jes
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