Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:16:40 -0500 (EST) |
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H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Red herring. It's not very nice for *applications* to not indirect > through a driver, but if that driver is in userspace or kernel space > is irrelevant. Incidentally, "applications" here include a lot of the > parsers that produce /proc output. /proc/pci is occationally handy, > but it is also an example on why you shouldn't do data reduction in > kernel space unless you can avoid it. Now /proc/bus/pci is available > and contains all the data, however.
Of course, /proc/bus/pci contains forbidden binary files. You're supposed to be happy with ASCII text, as found in the /proc/pci file.
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