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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 11:40:59 -0800
From:      "'Luigi Rizzo'" <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        Jim McGrath <jmcgrath@sitaranetworks.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com
Subject:   Re: softc, ifnet and arpcom overlay
Message-ID:  <20011103114059.A56950@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DAB01BE79AD@rios.sitaranetworks.com>
References:  <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DAB01BE79AD@rios.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:32:18PM -0500, Jim McGrath wrote:
> It makes the assumption that the ifnet/arpcom structure is at the beginning
> of the softc structure.  In needs to do this to maintain media independence.

whoops, you are right... it is really bad that dev->softc
is a void* and there is no static or dynamic type information
associated with it.

	thanks
	luigi

> Also see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29249
> 
> Jim

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