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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:42:39 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        bu7cher@yandex.ru
Cc:        brooks@FreeBSD.org, rpaulo@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, ivoras@FreeBSD.org, brueffer@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Magic symlinks redux
Message-ID:  <20080824.224239.-4055712.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <48B234F7.8070407@yandex.ru>
References:  <200808222241.52325.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080822.224404.691670281.imp@bsdimp.com> <48B234F7.8070407@yandex.ru>

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            "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> writes:
: 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?

Lots of things could...  However, pciconf(8) likely runs too late...

Warner



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