[PATCH libpciaccess 1/2] linux sysfs: retrieve vendor, device... info via separate sysfs files

[Emil Velikov]

On 16 December 2016 at 19:10, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 December 2016 at 18:17, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>
>> Currently the kernel does not expose the revision file. With that about
>> to change (due in 4.10) we can read all the information required from
>> separate files and avoid opening the config one.
>>
>> The latter has the [negative] side effect of waking up the device, which
>> in some cases can be quite costly.
>>
>> Cc: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>> ---
>> Adam, as suggested - here we fallback to config, if one is using an old
>> kernel.
>
> Adam, others,
>
> Humble ping on this and 2/2 ?
>
Anyone ?

-Emil