Re: /proc/pci cleanup

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 20:25:05 +0100


Hi,

> Why isn't this exposed to the sysctl interface? I would suggest
> /proc/sys/dev/pci as a place for it. Tools like lspci would then use
> sysctl(2) instead of getdents, open, read.

There is no need to use getdents -- you just look up the device you
want in /proc/bus/pci/devices and open the appropriate config space
file, using pread and pwrite for all accesses.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@gts.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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