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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:17:05 -0300
From: Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
<snip>
>=20
> That ignores the people who also need to get at the data, which must=20
> first be compiled from C into object code, then extracted via modutils,=
=20
> then turned into a computer readable form again, then used.

Agreed. Someone could want to look at the data about the pci devices
_before_ the module is compiled, without needing to compile the module
or parsing C code.

I'm not sure if it will be worth, but it would be possible, for example,
to have a tool that says what modules you'll need to compile, just
looking at your hardware, at config time.

Just my 2 cents,

--=20
Eduardo

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