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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:20:21 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:58AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 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? 

They are looking at the modules.pcimap files which are generated from
depmod, which pull it from the object files.

greg k-h
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