[Crash-utility] [Patch] Fix dev -p command for systems with virtual devices

Maneesh Soni maneesh at in.ibm.com
Fri Dec 22 11:27:08 UTC 2006


On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 04:46:52PM +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote:
> Hi Dave
> 
> Running 'dev -p' command on PowerPC systems with virtual devices (ie
> no real PCI devices) fails with the following message:
> 
> dev: invalid kernel virtual address: 98  type: "pci bus number"
> 
> It should instead report that there are no _real_ PCI devices to list.
> The following patch addresses this issue. Currently it just prints a
> message letting the user know of the absence of pci devices, but it
> might be a good idea to list down the virtual devices present in the
> system in such cases. I am working on a patch for that too, probably
> will discuss that on another thread.
> 

I guess, "dev -p" is supposed to list only pci devices, so will it
make more sense to have a new option something like "dev -v" for 
displaying virtual devices information?

Thanks
Maneesh




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