Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:19:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Dan Hollis wrote: > > At the very least this should be a kernel option, > > "legacy /proc/pci (obsolete)". Taking this choice out of users hands is > > *bad*. > The initial decision was indeed unclever, but once a feature has been made > available it gets hard to remove it.
I cant see any compelling reason to encourage use of this obsolete interface especially now that a userspace tool is available that is 100,000x better.
> > Besides, lspci is 100,000x more verbose and useful than 'cat /proc/pci'. > > Is "user habit to type 'cat /proc/pci'" a good enough reason to keep it? > That is one of the possible question about /proc/pci and if decision is > taken to remove it, we must allow time to userland softwares that still > rely on this feature for being converted to the replacement feature (that > already exists).
But what software depends on /proc/pci to function? Is there any?
-Dan
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