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.

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