Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:15:04 -0500 (EST) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: unkown PCI device |
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Martin Mares writes: > [someone writes]
>> /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.
Grrr... don't you even think of it!
People paid money for those servers. How does /proc/pci hurt you? If you don't like it, you have the config option. Maybe there should never have been a /proc/pci, but it's there now and I'm addicted to it.
One common complaint about Linux is that is changes too often. This wouldn't be just a new version freaking out a PHB, but a real incompatible change. It's not even a change we need for standards compliance. If /proc/pci somehow impedes development, please explain.
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