Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | "David Parsons" <> |
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Dan Hollis wrote: > > On 25 Oct 1999, david parsons wrote: > > >Interesting. Does this mean we will be stuck forever with an ever-growing > > >unswappable static text table in the kernel? > > No. > > Aside from some value of backwards compatability, /proc/pci is useful > > as it stands right now with (for example) > > Vendor id=1106. Device id=8598. > > which a well-behaved userland can pick up in a much cleaner fashion > > than having to hope that userland keeps up with the explosion in > > PCI devices. > > Isnt this what /proc/bus/pci is for? That is, parsing binary will be much > cleaner fashion than parsing text strings out of a funky formatted text > file.
Except that /proc/pci is backwards compatable.
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