Then I encourage you to show us a better way :-)
Why not make the necessary mods, and take some timings.
(assuming it is a matter of speed...)
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html