Saurabh> The application for which I plan on using libsmi would Saurabh> benefit from the convenience of being able to specify the Saurabh> root of a subtree to which the search for the given object Saurabh> should be restriced.

Did I get you right?... You wish to have a way to specify a node and search for a specific node by a given name, e.g. search for sysDescr underneath 1.3.6.1.2?

Saurabh> From my understanding of the API, there isn't a way to do Saurabh> this? Am I right?

If I understand your wish correctly, you are right. This is not possible.

Saurabh> If so, would the maintainers consider adding such an Saurabh> interface in a future release?

I think, the only exact way to search for a node is by giving a module and a name. A subtree root node is no good choice for limiting the namespace of object identifiers, since (a) it is not capable to preclude the possibility of a name duplicate and (b) it does not (gernerally) allow to limit the set of nodes to semantic groups like a module does.

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