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SubjectRe: /proc/pci deprecation?
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:46:58PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:15:59PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> > * 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.
>
> In this weird embedded board with small flash it'd be lovely to save one
> more page (or perhaps more) in the kernel image, no? :-)

Agreed. But -=*if*=- I want to.

I would personally prefer to spend the page in the (compressed in flash!)
kernel image than the nine pages or so for "lspci" (possibly compressed
as well).

Roger.

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