Re: /proc/pci unknown devices

david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
25 Oct 1999 12:20:14 -0700

In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9910251121300.23113-100000@anime.net>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Dan Hollis wrote:
>> > /proc/pci is going away. Try lspci instead.
>> Are you sure? After a patch in the 2.3.x series, /proc/pci was made
>> non-optional.
>
>Interesting. Does this mean we will be stuck forever with an ever-growing
>unswappable static text table in the kernel?

No.

Aside from some value of backwards compatability, /proc/pci is useful
as it stands right now with (for example)

Vendor id=1106. Device id=8598.

which a well-behaved userland can pick up in a much cleaner fashion
than having to hope that userland keeps up with the explosion in
PCI devices.

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