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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
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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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