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Cc: brooks@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org, brueffer@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Magic symlinks redux
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In message: <20080822162259.GA61694@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
            Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes:
: Also, we do have a need to push tables of info in the kernel
: (e.g. list of PCI/USB ids, quirks tables and the like),
: maybe we can take this chance to make the varsym subsystem useful
: also within device drivers ?

No.  what problem would this solve?

Warner