Re: [patch 2.5] PCI: allow alternative methods for probing the BARs

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 12:46:52 EST


On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
>
> > IIRC, lspci needs to be fixed to support this as well.
>
> No, unless we change the API and start exporting the domain
> number (pci_controller_num) to userspace.

It _is_ already exported. /sys gets this right, as far as I know (I don't
have any machines to test with, but at least it's not anything
fundamentally hard to fix in case there's something missing).

But yes, X and lspci would need to know about /sys.

                Linus

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