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Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> writes:
> The pmc(4) driver (being written) needs a way of informing the
> userland libpmc(3) (also being written) about the kind of CPU
> present in the system and I thought I could use the symbols in
> <cputypes.h> instead of defining them in <sys/pmc.h>.

Is there a good reason why pmc(4) can't pass this information out as a
string?  Less chance of future breaks in binary compatibility that
way.

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