Re: human-readable dmesg

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander Polakov schrieb:
> > That looks pretty good but I wonder if the module could simply be
> > modified to use the pcidevs_data.h that already exists in
> > /usr/src/sys/bus/pci
>
> Then we need to update pcidevs, don't we? I got this from NetBSD and
> fixed it, so GENERIC compiles fine.

Hmm,

are we talking about duplicating the purpose of 'pciconf -lv' command in 
the kernel here? IMHO we shouldn't have the kernel's pcidevs file 
include every device under the sun just to get pretty dmesgs. Who will 
maintain it in the future?

Also, we can't simply copy NetBSD's pcidevs file over ours since the 
names constructed from it are used by the kernel source and there are 
likely different PCI IDs for the same names somewhere as well as entries 
in our file which NetBSD doesn't have.

Regards,
Sascha

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