>I agree, and I would extend this to easing the pain of supporting 1.2,
>current, *and* all the myriad 4.*BSD-derivative OS's out there which
>still have the legacy framework.

This is why C has macro's.  See either dev/pci/if_devar.h or 
dev/ic/pdqvar.h for one approach to this.


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