Subject: Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
Date: Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:29:36PM -0600
In reply to:Christian Dysthe
Quoting Christian Dysthe([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> 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?
The commercial OSS driver for the 2.2.x kernel works fine, the ones
for the 2.0.x kernels don't, of course, work with the newer kernels.
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