Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > 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
I didn't mean to imply there was no way out, just being accurate about the current situation.
