Hi...
...I was afraid someone would suggest that... :-[
Nicolas Williams perorated, on or about 12/15/09 16:32:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:10:22PM -0800, Jon Aimone wrote:
>
>> Bill Sommerfeld perorated, on or about 12/15/09 15:25:
>>
>>> It's IMHO very important to distinguish between things which are private
>>> by design and things which are private because we haven't gotten around
>>> to defining a public interface.
>>>
>>> Folks who are not "on the inside" often treat a "no, you can't do it
>>> that way right now" answer as a "no, you can't do that ever".
>>>
>
> +1
>
>
>> I could not agree more. Hence my original request and the subsequent
>> RFE... I'd much rather pull for an official interface than hack around
>> or duplicate previous art.
>>
>> My only concern now is the fact the RFE was quickly moved to bugster as
>> a P4 RFE... and I'm wondering what kind of miracle it will take to get
>> activity on a P4...
>>
>
> If you can't get someone else to do it, you might do it yourself.
>
> The simplest fix would be to file a self-review or fasttrack ARC case
> documenting the OPROMDEV2PROMNAME and OPROMPROM2DEVNAME ioctls of the
> openprom(7D) driver. That's not the cleanest fix, but hey, it's just
> docs, can't beat that!
>
> The better, less simple way would be to add di_dev2prom() and
> di_prom2dev() to libdevinfo as simple wrappers of those internal
> functions. A simple ARC case and simple code fix.
>
> You could also do both.
>
> Nico
>
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Merry Christmas,
Jon.
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