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<<On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:58:20 -0400 (EDT), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said:

> can be changed to:

> 	mii = device_get_softc(dev);
> 	ifp = mii->mii_ifp;

I don't see anything wrong with the way things are.  Perhaps some more
documentation is necessary, but as noted upthread this has a 20-year
history in the BSD networking stack and it's not like it's a
particular imposition.

-GAWollman


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