Re: /proc/pci design idea
Christopher Horn (chorn@warwick.net)
Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:28:45 -0400
Stephen Williams wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get vendor/device names out of the kernel.
>
> The boot messages would include string names for the classes and hex
> dumps of the id number for tracking things down. Although putting the strings
> in init is an interesting idea.
Someone posted a patch that made the device list init data that could be
discarded a while back. Saved the entries for found hardware in a
separate list. Unfortunately, they did not get rid of the vendor and
class lists.
- Chris