Re: /proc/pci deprecation?

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 12:46:58 EST


Em Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:15:59PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> * Erik Hensema (usenet@hensema.xs4all.nl) wrote:
> >
> > Every half-decent installer autodetects all PCI devices. AND had lspci
> > installed in the install image.
>
> Yes, but wait till you find yourself stuck on a weird embedded board
> with a small flash and a serial console and you are trying to debug the
> PCI device you've built.

In this weird embedded board with small flash it'd be lovely to save one
more page (or perhaps more) in the kernel image, no? :-)
 
> Sure in most cases you have lspci (and its friends); but why do people
> want to deprecate a perfectly good tool that occasionally comes in
> useful? (Make it a compile time option sure, remove it - no).

See above. And as you said lspci mostly is available. Remove it or make
it a compile time option, please.

- Arnaldo
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