[PATCH 1/2] xfree86: pci: remove superfluous vendor and card name logging

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Thu Jun 10 02:10:08 PDT 2010


>>>>> "TV" == Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> writes:

TV> X server suffers in startup time when relying on the pciaccess's linear search
TV> to fetch vendor and video device name from PCI ID file (when existent). Such
TV> names are only used to write the log, which may be superfluous. Users can get
TV> the same information about external tools like lspci or scanpci.

TV> This patch remove the references of those functions from X start up.

TV> Reported-by: Richard Barnette <jrbarnette at chromium.org>
TV> Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>

I'd mention in the commit log that the info often is also provided by
the drivers.

With that, 

Reviewed-by: James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>

-JimC
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