I didn't say "more", I said "lag behind".
And it makes a lot of sense for the kernel to have less PCI info; it
only needs info for the devices linked into the kernel. Info for
hotswap devices and other devices can be obtained from userspace.
> > > > I believe Martin is working on a script to convert his pci.ids into a
> > > > form that the kernel code understands..
> > > 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.
> > That isn't the case. :)
> > The tables are marked with __initdata.
>
> I dont get it. The tables are dumped after bootup, so /proc/pci wont be
> able to show verbose info anyway then?
No, the info for devices present on the system is copied before the
tables are dropped.
Jeff
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