Re: What to do with: "warning: page-size limit reached"

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:44:42 +0200


Hello,

> I get this message in my proc/pci file. I have a system
> with 16 ethernet ports and associated bridges and is
> exceeding the single page limit on the size of proc/pci.

If you are using 2.1, there is no reason to use /proc/pci at all as it
has been superseded by /proc/bus/pci.

> This is a big problem because the network drivers parse
> /proc/pci to get their io address and IRQ info.

No. /proc/pci is only for _user_ information and no part of the kernel
depends on it.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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