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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). Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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