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diff --git a/lspci.man b/lspci.man
index 2ae1f4595fdd6f9ac2889385b66c23bb6807cbbc..5e8df97d969ad12fefe6a835313057cac096315f 100644 (file)
--- a/lspci.man
+++ b/lspci.man
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ lspci \- list all PCI devices
 is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and
 all devices connected to them.
 
-To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel
-2.1.82 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/pci interface. With older kernels,
-the PCI utilities have to use direct hardware access which is available
-only to root and it suffers from numerous race conditions and other problems.
-
 If you are going to report bugs in PCI device drivers or in
 .I lspci
 itself, please include output of "lspci -vvx".
@@ -110,7 +105,7 @@ it's supported in.
 
 .TP
 .B -P <dir>
-Use Linux 2.1 style configuration access to directory
+Force use of Linux /proc/bus/pci style configuration access, using
 .B <dir>
 instead of /proc/bus/pci. (Linux 2.1 or newer only)
 .TP

diff --git a/setpci.man b/setpci.man
index 4991a98277abaab94f1e9d88f38d6bc05fe9c8fd..f12f0287f24c914d6354cf863aeb0a9397254445 100644 (file)
--- a/setpci.man
+++ b/setpci.man
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ setpci \- configure PCI devices
 .B setpci
 is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.
 
-To make use of all the features of this program, you need to have Linux kernel
-2.1.82 or newer which supports the /proc/bus/pci interface. With older kernels,
-the PCI utilities have to use direct hardware access which is available
-only to root and it suffers from numerous race conditions and other problems.
-
 All numbers are entered in hexadecimal notation.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
@@ -168,7 +163,7 @@ it's supported in.
 
 .TP
 .B -P <dir>
-Use Linux 2.1 style configuration access to directory
+Force use of Linux /proc/bus/pci style configuration access, using
 .B <dir>
 instead of /proc/bus/pci. (Linux 2.1 or newer only)
 .TP