Re: unkown PCI device

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 21:10:12 +0100


Hello,

> Sorry, I've just realized that it shouldn't have sent to the list because
> /proc/pci is absolote in 2.1.x kernels, and other utilites like lspci
> have user space solutions (/etc/pci.ids for example). Sorry again.
>
> Btw : When /proc/pci will be removed from the kernel source ?

Since several commercial X servers parse /proc/pci to get device addresses,
we probably need to keep this interface in 2.2. If Linus agrees, I'll remove
it at start of the 2.3 line.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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