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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:11:58 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic
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> 2.4.9 of course has the newstyle pci interface! And actual hotplug
> PCI support also is in all today singnificant 2.4.9 forks (RH..).
> 
> There's even some shim to emulate the pci_driver style interface on
> 2.2.
> 
> Anyway, this table has another use, it's used by userland ools like
> installers for selecting the right driver for a given pci device.  So
> even if it seems unused from kernelspace it has a use.

Are they kmem diving? Or parsing source code? 

Thanks,

M.
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