> Culprit of what?
> Intel and Symbios break your preferred code by violating an implicitely
I'm still sure it's explicitly required by the specs, I'll try to find
the exact wording as soon as I return home.
> assumed PCI requirement, but your preferred code may break running
> systems.
>
> If I were in your shoes, I would not expect all users who will get their
> running system broken by 'lspci' to point their fingers in the direction
> you suggest. ;-)
Please note that lspci can crash the system only by root and only if he
uses the '-xx' option which is warned about in the man page.
> Are you requiring all Linux System administrator to be as knowledgeable as
> us on PCI technology? My opinion is that there is at least reason to
> _clearly_ discourage users to press this _red_ _button_, unless you just
s/users/administrators/
> want _millions_ of fingers to point at your direction. ;-)
No, I don't want to cripple kernel functionality just to disallow root
crashing the machine in case the hardware is broken.
Have a nice fortnight
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