----- "Dave Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > With this I wanted to know, if you intend to keep dev -p behavior as it is
> > now or
> > there is any plan to change it to display actual values?
> >
> > Thank You
> > Sharyathi N
>
> I (personally) have no plans to change it. If I remember correctly,
> Bud Brown came up with an alternate scheme, but the imported data from
> the kernel proper required to accomplish it was enormous (bordering
> on absurd), so I suggested that it would be more appropriate as an
> extension module.
>
> Bud -- feel free to chime in here... ;-)
>
> For that matter, even the "old" way required the import of ~1000 lines
> of kernel #define's -- which always bugged me -- and was pretty much the
> only crash command that had to do such a thing.
>
> Dave
Actually, at a minimum, I should change this:
if (!symbol_exists("pci_devices"))
error(FATAL, "no PCI devices found on this system.\n");
to the generic option_not_supported() message.
Dave
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