I cant see any compelling reason to encourage use of this obsolete
interface especially now that a userspace tool is available that is
100,000x better.
> > Besides, lspci is 100,000x more verbose and useful than 'cat /proc/pci'.
> > Is "user habit to type 'cat /proc/pci'" a good enough reason to keep it?
> That is one of the possible question about /proc/pci and if decision is
> taken to remove it, we must allow time to userland softwares that still
> rely on this feature for being converted to the replacement feature (that
> already exists).
But what software depends on /proc/pci to function? Is there any?
-Dan
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