Hi,

I filed an RFE for this.

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13378

Bill Sommerfeld perorated, on or about 12/15/09 09:02:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 18:55 -0800, Dan Mick wrote:
>   
>> Jon Aimone wrote:
>>     
>>> I just can't seem to find any public header file available to non-ON 
>>> developers that mentions those functions...
>>>       
>> Those functions are not public.  (If they were, they should be listed
>> in libdevinfo(3LIB).)  As it is, I see they're defined as static, so 
>> certainly 
>> not intended to be used outside libdevinfo.  I don't see any wrapper that 
>> encapsulates their functionality in any externally-visible symbol either.
>>     
>
> If the functionality is needed outside ON, ON should provide an
> interface.
>
> Promoting these functions (or one with equivalent functionality) to a
> public interface makes a lot more sense than having the installer team
> hack up something fragile because the function isn't public.
>
>                                       - Bill
>
>   

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Merry Christmas,
Jon.
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