Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Eric Lowe wrote: >> There's another clue though. I tried to run scanpci (always worked >> before) and that caused my laptop to freeze up solid. So apparently >> it isn't just X that is causing problems. > > scanpci is just a standalone copy of Xorg's PCI bus probe code > (which is known to be wholly inappropriate, evil, and twisted, > yet we have no other way to get the information needed in X, > so it lives on, poking the PCI bus in dangerous ways behind the > kernel's back). > Wouldn't it be easy to just have a utility that walks the device tree? Surely all the important bits are there, and it would be safe.
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