* Erik Hensema (usenet@hensema.xs4all.nl) wrote:
>
> Every half-decent installer autodetects all PCI devices. AND had lspci
> installed in the install image.
Yes, but wait till you find yourself stuck on a weird embedded board
with a small flash and a serial console and you are trying to debug the
PCI device you've built.
Sure in most cases you have lspci (and its friends); but why do people
want to deprecate a perfectly good tool that occasionally comes in
useful? (Make it a compile time option sure, remove it - no).
Dave
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