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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:52:52 +0100
From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/pci deprecation?
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:14:24PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > IMO, yes, since those tools provide the summary, and exist almost purely in
> > > userspace. I forgot to mention in the orginal email that we could also drop
> > > the PCI names database, right? This would save a considerable amount in the
> > > kernel image alone..
> > 
> > If you want, make it user configurable like it was during 2.2.x. But
> > I personally prefer descriptive names and system overview I can parse 
> > without having mounted /usr to get working lspci.
> 
> Actually I'm inclined to insist that lspci belong in /sbin.  Really.  :)

Try it. At least on Debian it is useless without name database, which lives in
/usr/share/misc/pci.ids...  I can read numbers directly from /proc/bus/pci, if
I want numbers.
							Petr Vandrovec
							vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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