On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'd like to commit the attached patch to allow converting drivers on a
> case-by-case base to not depend on struct device being the first  
> field.
> if_bge is included as sample. CFATTACH_DECL*_NEW is meant as a  
> temporary
> interface until all drivers are converted and should be removed after
> that. This is a first and critical step to completely remove the  
> public
> definition of struct device (and make it an abstract interface  
> thereby).
>
> Joerg
> <softc-sep.diff>

Shouldn't devices be allocated from their own pool rather than be
malloced?