Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:13:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: /proc/pci unknown devices |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > For those running embedded pci systems the extra 35kb of wasted text > > strings is not really nice. Especially if you are going to have to ROM the > > image. For some users this could make the difference between kernel too > > large for lilo, and one that works. > Keeping the names in the kernel eliminates the need for pciutils in many > embedded systems, making it the better choice!
Theres more to pciutils than lspci. (Did you ever look?)
I guess its moot anyway now that the choice has been taken out of users hands.
> > I thought we were trying to avoid M$-thinking, or is redmond starting to > > influence developers, "16kb here, 32kb there, it won't matter". > 32k of __initdata, _before_ it is compressed, is not a bad deal.
And users now have no choice in the matter anyway? Oh well.
-Dan
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