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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:40:04 +0200

> Switch object itselt would not help you to expose rocker internals. I
> don't think that you can find generic way, same for all drivers, to
> expose internal tables and stuff. That is hw specific.

Tables are datastructures with names and types.

Is it not possible to describe datastructures and their types with
user visible interfaces?

Anyone against what I am saying right now is simply lazy.