Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:11:08 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.5.4 i810_audio, bttv, working at all. |
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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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