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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > As an experiment a couple months ago, I got most of the PCI net drivers
> > down to ~200-300 lines of C code apiece, by factoring out common code
> > patterns into M4 macros.  "m4 netdrivers.m4 epic100.tmpl > epic100.c"
> 
> This is slightly extreme, right?
> 
> But I'd like to see resulting epic100.tmpl ;-).

When you have to maintain more than 10 "cookie cutter" net drivers that
are 80-90% the same, you start to want such extremes :)

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Jeff Garzik      | "I went through my candy like hot oatmeal
Building 1024    |  through an internally-buttered weasel."
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