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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
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Reflect reality.
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@@ -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