Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:04:24 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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goemon@sasami.anime.net said: > Oh, yuck. 35kbyte of static text tables in the kernel. And it will > just grow and grow...
> Someone please tell me this isnt the case.
AFAIR, it's not. Only the names of the boards which are currently installed in the system are kept. The rest is __initdata and hence is discarded on boot.
Fine until we actually start to support hotswap PCI, or CardBus... Oh shit.
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