Re: /proc/pci unknown devices

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:57:22 -0400

Martin Mares wrote:
>
> > I dunno. I use 'cat /proc/pci' quite often. pciutils always seems to
> > lag behind the 2.3.x kernel info, at least for now.
>
> Actually, pciutils recognize much more devices than the kernel tables

Yes, absolutely

> (at least until Linus accepts my new kernel device list based on pci.ids
> if he doesn't want to remove the whole beast).

Right. pciutils doesn't recognize my Via motherboard for example, but
the kernel does [because I submitted a patch to do so :)]

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