Re: /proc/pci

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:05:12 +0800


Philip.Blundell@pobox.com said:
> and the format of the `memory at...' lines has been changed
> slightly, which breaks some applications (notably XF86_TGA).

Oh... is *that* how the X servers find PCI video cards? Golly, that is
pretty fragile. I think that my /proc/pcibus patches are an improvement
over that, and David Howells Configuration Management patches may improve
it even further.

I think that programs parsing /proc/pci is a very bad idea. I think it
should be removed altogether.

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Steve Williams
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