[parisc-linux] enumerating devices from user space

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:58:19 +0000


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:36:51PM +0100, Lyonel Vincent wrote:
> SCSI, PCI etc. are already enumerated platform-independently (without
> needing pci-utils nor sg-utils, only pci.ids) but they currently seem to
> come "out of the void" as the underlying hardware (LASI, various GSC
> bridges, etc) is not enumerated.

Right -- and you'll get this in 2.5 from sysfs.  Given this, I'm reluctant
to introduce a new file in /proc.

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