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authorMartin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>2003-01-04 12:52:35 +0000
committerMartin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>2006-05-05 14:10:57 +0200
commit9f3d182f5f3789994219d84fbab7819b87cf9887 (patch)
tree71750d84e5acad85a1742f5c9cb9b8b25106bda2
parente2875dcde11fde30d7c12614f75f4e210f5ad9a9 (diff)
downloadpciutils-9f3d182f5f3789994219d84fbab7819b87cf9887.tar.gz
Reflect reality.
-rw-r--r--lspci.man7
-rw-r--r--setpci.man7
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lspci.man b/lspci.man
index 2ae1f45..5e8df97 100644
--- a/lspci.man
+++ b/lspci.man
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ lspci \- list all PCI devices
is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and
all devices connected to them.
-To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel
-2.1.82 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/pci interface. With older kernels,
-the PCI utilities have to use direct hardware access which is available
-only to root and it suffers from numerous race conditions and other problems.
-
If you are going to report bugs in PCI device drivers or in
.I lspci
itself, please include output of "lspci -vvx".
@@ -110,7 +105,7 @@ it's supported in.
.TP
.B -P <dir>
-Use Linux 2.1 style configuration access to directory
+Force use of Linux /proc/bus/pci style configuration access, using
.B <dir>
instead of /proc/bus/pci. (Linux 2.1 or newer only)
.TP
diff --git a/setpci.man b/setpci.man
index 4991a98..f12f028 100644
--- a/setpci.man
+++ b/setpci.man
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ setpci \- configure PCI devices
.B setpci
is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.
-To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel
-2.1.82 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/pci interface. With older kernels,
-the PCI utilities have to use direct hardware access which is available
-only to root and it suffers from numerous race conditions and other problems.
-
All numbers are entered in hexadecimal notation.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -168,7 +163,7 @@ it's supported in.
.TP
.B -P <dir>
-Use Linux 2.1 style configuration access to directory
+Force use of Linux /proc/bus/pci style configuration access, using
.B <dir>
instead of /proc/bus/pci. (Linux 2.1 or newer only)
.TP