Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 22:07:13 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: /proc/pci, lspci etc. |
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Hello,
> Yes, but it is like saying that we don't need route or netstat -rn because there > is /proc/net/route. The /proc/bus/pci/devices is good only if you know all ids > by heart.
If we compare the situation to what we have with routing, we now get exactly the same -- for routes you have /proc/net/route and the `route' command to display it in human-readable format, for PCI you have /proc/bus/pci/devices and lspci.
It's _really_ not sane to store table of all existing PCI devices in the kernel along with their names. The era of just a few PCI devices where /proc/pci was a possibility (although not a good one) is gone...
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "IBM = International Band of Magicians"
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