On 26-Oct-99 Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> it's __initdata, which means the space
> is released back to the system after the kernel boots.
Huh? How can it be initdata? It's used after boot time (say, when you cat
/proc/pci).
If you look at the source, you'll see that at boot time, when the PCI
bus is queried and the PCI device structures are created, that the
string for each PCI card's name is copied into the PCI structure, and it
is this information which is used to construct /proc/pci.
You'll also see that it's a pretty trivial patch to make the table be
null-length, in which case, the name initialized at boot time is
something like "unknown PCI device 1234:3456".
- Ted
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