Re: /proc/pci unknown devices

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:04:24 +0100


goemon@sasami.anime.net said:
> Oh, yuck. 35kbyte of static text tables in the kernel. And it will
> just grow and grow...

> Someone please tell me this isnt the case.

AFAIR, it's not. Only the names of the boards which are currently installed in
the system are kept. The rest is __initdata and hence is discarded on boot.

Fine until we actually start to support hotswap PCI, or CardBus... Oh shit.

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