Re: /proc/pci deprecation?

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:08:48 -0200


Em Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:03:19PM +0100, Rogier Wolff escreveu:
> 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).

wow, is lspci so bloated? 8) And I didn't objected to having it as a user
selectable option :-)

- Arnaldo
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