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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:29:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: review of minor clarifying comments
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110022328480.38937-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200110030212.f932Ci777014@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<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.

Its a layering violation in IMHO (in newbus anyway.)

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