On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> true functions.  Having a true DDI/Kernel API would almost force that
> bit to get cleaned up.

There is another aspect to this.  Data structures used within the  
kernel need to become opaque, and accessor / mutator functions  
provided to operate on them.  For things compiled into the kernel  
proper, these accessor / mutator functions could be turned into CPP  
macros.

-- thorpej