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Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian



On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:18:26PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 16, Jeff Licquia <licquia@progeny.com> wrote:
> 
> >  - Which XFree86 driver works with my video card?
> >  - How do I format PostScript to talk to my printer?
> >  - What software do I need to install for my new scanner to work?
> >  - What package contains the special tweak utilities for my laptop?
> >  - What FreeBSD driver does my network card need?
> > 
> > These, I suspect, might be difficult questions for hotplug to answer.
> It does not even try... 
> I'm not saying that there is no use for discover, but that hotplug is
> more suitable to manage loading of kernel drivers (i.e. just about
> everything which appears in /sys/).

BTW, i am curious about this /sys, and in particular its interaction
with tools like lspci.

lspci used to look at /proc/bus/pci, and parse its output, saddly, it
doesn't do for me, since i have two 00 directories there :/.

Anyway, is lspci broken, because it doesn't look at /sys on a 2.6
kernel, or is lspci obsolet and replaced by some newer tool ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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