Re: /proc/pci deprecation?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:15:59PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> * Erik Hensema ([e-mail]) 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? :-)
 
> 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).

See above. And as you said lspci mostly is available. Remove it or make
it a compile time option, please.

- Arnaldo