Re: /proc/pci unknown devices
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:37:24 -0700 (PDT)
On 25 Oct 1999, david parsons wrote:
> >Interesting. Does this mean we will be stuck forever with an ever-growing
> >unswappable static text table in the kernel?
> No.
> Aside from some value of backwards compatability, /proc/pci is useful
> as it stands right now with (for example)
> Vendor id=1106. Device id=8598.
> which a well-behaved userland can pick up in a much cleaner fashion
> than having to hope that userland keeps up with the explosion in
> PCI devices.
Isnt this what /proc/bus/pci is for? That is, parsing binary will be much
cleaner fashion than parsing text strings out of a funky formatted text
file.
-Dan
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