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From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] new 7-segments char translation API
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Henk wrote:
>
> Pavel wrote:
> > Keep 7-segment displays out of kernel. If it is usb, drive it from
> > userspace with libusb...
> 
> I see that you did not provide any arguments.

The kernel already provides a method to store arbitrary tables - the
filesystem.  By your reasoning /usr/dict/words had to be in the kernel,
too.

Ciao, ET.