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From: Meir Kriheli <mksoft@g.o>
To: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
Cc: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-stats client: Need some files from other archs
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:48:45
Message-Id: 200311232348.25487.mksoft@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-stats client: Need some files from other archs by Luke-Jr
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4 On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:23, Luke-Jr wrote:
5 > On Sunday 23 November 2003 05:01 am, Terje Kvernes wrote:
6 > > /proc/pci isn't going to stay around in 2.6 unless you explicitly
7 > > ask to keep it. use "lspci" instead, and depend on pciutils. ;-)
8 >
9 > More depends will discourage people from using it. I was hesitant to
10 > install the old stats on my laptop because it has very little space and it
11 > had quite a few deps IIRC.
12 > Why not parse /sys/bus/pci if it exists?
13
14 I don't won't to add depends (that's one reason the client is rewritten in
15 python).
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17 The route taken will probably be:
18
19 check for /proc/pci
20 if not check for lspci
21 if not, check for and try to figure out /sys/bus/pci mess
22 last resort: don't report cards.
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24 Meir Kriheli
25 MKsoft systems
26 http://www.mksoft.co.il
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