Re: /proc/pci unknown devices
David Parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> 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.
Except that /proc/pci is backwards compatable.
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