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Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?




On 28-Mar-99 Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> 
>> "cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface"
> It has nothing to do with the startup sequence. The 2.2.x (and 2.1.x) have
> introduced another interface to report about the PCI bus devices on your
> system. Kernels prior to 2.1.x used /proc/pci to publish this information in
> a
> textual form, while the >=2.1.x kernels have /proc/bus/pci interface which
> exports that data in a binary form which is translated into human-readable
> data using the pciutils package. /proc/pci can be compiled into kernel for
> compatibility reasons, but the kernel can complain about some program using
> an
> obsolete interface, as it did in your case.
> 
> 
> marek

Does this mean that the OSS driver (the commercial one) isn't ready for kernels
2.1.x and above, and that I should expect an updated driver that uses the new
interface?  

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Regards,
Christian Dysthe
Email: cdysthe@bigfoot.com
Date: 27-Mar-99
Time: 18:29:36
UIN: 33573035
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