Re: /proc/pci unknown devices

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:13:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > For those running embedded pci systems the extra 35kb of wasted text
> > strings is not really nice. Especially if you are going to have to ROM the
> > image. For some users this could make the difference between kernel too
> > large for lilo, and one that works.
> Keeping the names in the kernel eliminates the need for pciutils in many
> embedded systems, making it the better choice!

Theres more to pciutils than lspci. (Did you ever look?)

I guess its moot anyway now that the choice has been taken out of users
hands.

> > I thought we were trying to avoid M$-thinking, or is redmond starting to
> > influence developers, "16kb here, 32kb there, it won't matter".
> 32k of __initdata, _before_ it is compressed, is not a bad deal.

And users now have no choice in the matter anyway? Oh well.

-Dan

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