Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:15:59 +0000 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: /proc/pci deprecation? |
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* Erik Hensema (usenet@hensema.xs4all.nl) wrote: > > Every half-decent installer autodetects all PCI devices. AND had lspci > installed in the install image.
Yes, but wait till you find yourself stuck on a weird embedded board with a small flash and a serial console and you are trying to debug the PCI device you've built.
Sure in most cases you have lspci (and its friends); but why do people want to deprecate a perfectly good tool that occasionally comes in useful? (Make it a compile time option sure, remove it - no).
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