From cea2dfbce5c87516308f646a84a83d43fec41563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Mares Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:08:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] lspci.man: Improved description of -M --- lspci.man | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lspci.man b/lspci.man index 441bc2b..601a48a 100644 --- a/lspci.man +++ b/lspci.man @@ -158,10 +158,9 @@ Applies only to Linux systems with recent enough module tools. .TP .B -M Invoke bus mapping mode which performs a thorough scan of all PCI devices, including -those behind misconfigured bridges etc. This option is available only to root and it -gives meaningful results only if combined with direct hardware access mode (otherwise -the results are identical to normal listing modes, modulo bugs in lspci). Please note -that the bus mapper doesn't support PCI domains and scans only domain 0. +those behind misconfigured bridges, etc. This option gives meaningful results only +with a direct hardware access mode, which usually requires root privileges. +Please note that the bus mapper only scans PCI domain 0. .TP .B --version Shows -- 2.39.2