"cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface"

Michael Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:08:47 -0700 (PDT)


I note that with recent (2.1.9x) kernels, toward the end of the boot cycle
it reports "cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface"...

Here are the last few lines of dmsg output on 2.1.95:

Starting kmod
Freeing unused kernel memory: 28k freed
Adding Swap: 56192k swap-space (priority -1)
---> cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
registered device ppp0

I'm not clear about what this means. I can't imagine why /bin/cat would
care at all about pci stuff... but just in case, I grabbed the latest gnu
textutils package and compiled and installed it, and this warning message
persists.

I _am_ running the oss (not ossfree, oss$$$) sound drivers, and that's about
the point in the boot where they load. Is this message perhaps the result
of the oss driver doing a "cat /proc/pci", rather than /bin/cat itself using
/proc/pci internally? If so, the warning is pretty ambiguous.

Michael

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