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Cc: brooks@FreeBSD.org, rpaulo@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, ivoras@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: Magic symlinks redux
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : The lookup table you have still requires patching source somewhere which 
> : probably defeats the purpose.
> 
> That's the whole "less lame of getting data into the kernel" I was
> talking about.  The above was to show the concept, not an actual
> implementation of the data.  I don't like the hint idea so much, but
> was looking for some other way to get the data into the kernel.

What is about extending pciconf(8) (or making a pcictl(8) alias) for 
this purposes?

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov