Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:15:01PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> writes:
> > Yeah. Options here would be:
> > 1) big hammer - write a modprobe wrapper that cleans
> > unused/unloadable modules after every load
> > 2) smaller hammer - write a modprobe wrapper that remembers what was
> > loaded before and, on failure, unloads all newly added, unused,
> > unloadable modules
> > 3) surgical hammer - whatever ends up loading acpihpi knows that, on
> > failure, dock and pci_hotplug should be removed (if unused)
> >
> > fyi, the dependencies loaded, and left unused, eat 9476 (dock) and
> > 28600 (pci_hotplug) bytes.
>
> imo, the best and more widly solution would be the 2. That shouldn't
> be too hard and would allow us to reduce the memory footprint not only
> on your user case but in general usage too.

Might be vearing off topic for this bug, but here's a wrapper I worked up (not yet tested in the d-i environment).

-- 
dann frazier

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