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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:15:59 +0000
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: erik@hensema.xs4all.nl
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Subject: Re: /proc/pci deprecation?
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* 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.

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).

Dave
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