Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "RvdM" == Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org> writes:

RvdM> It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the
RvdM> default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't
RvdM> support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the
RvdM> interface that pciutils uses) it might have been better to not
RvdM> to include that call to lspci.

I think it has been done to allow to drop in a 2.2 kernel (I think you 
have to update netbase though). And as it doesn't do any harm on 2.0
kernels, it is easier to let keep the program execution in, as to
advice the user to add it to the startup file.

Ciao,
	Martin