[ale] divergent issue related to lspci, was: Re:interrupts in linux??

[Hugh Esco]

Yes, I understand that /proc is all in ram, not on the hard drive.  But 
what specifically is it about the kernel which builds it at boot time?  The 
/proc hierarchy is getting built, but apparently not the expected contents 
of /proc/bus.  Where would I start in trouble shooting this problem?

Perhaps that is a never mind.  I just got the following
response back from a friend on this subject:

>The kernel detects a PCI bridge at boot time. The response you got shows 
>there is no PCI hardware on badili.  It's an all-ISA box.  Must have been 
>designed before about 1993. This makes it hard to figure out what hardware 
>exists on the machine.

-- Hugh

At 11:09 AM 12/29/02 -0500, Matty <matty91 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>The /proc file system is really a facade. It simply provides an
>interface into various kernel data structures. If the kernel finds your
>device, the pertinent data would be available within the /proc tree.
>Linux goes out of the way to provide simple interfaces to everything :)
>
> > What routine would build /proc/bus at start-up?



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