On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 22:22:20 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> is there a good reason to keep all the pointer casts for
> device softc's to struct device and vice versa? I think it would be good
> to follow the changes in ifnet vs arpcom and use direct pointer.
> An additional goody would be that struct device could become an abstract
> type and modifying it gets easier.

And we already have void *device_private(device_t); that's currently
is a no-op (returns back its argument), but you can use it on existing
code to easily mark it up for split device/softc.

SY, Uwe
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