Magic symlinks redux

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Mon Aug 25 04:28:54 UTC 2008


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : The lookup table you have still requires patching source somewhere which 
> : probably defeats the purpose.
> 
> That's the whole "less lame of getting data into the kernel" I was
> talking about.  The above was to show the concept, not an actual
> implementation of the data.  I don't like the hint idea so much, but
> was looking for some other way to get the data into the kernel.

What is about extending pciconf(8) (or making a pcictl(8) alias) for 
this purposes?

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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