From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: Nikita@Namesys.COM, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com
Cc: alessandro.suardi@oracle.com, andries.brouwer@cwi.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: 2.5.2-pre7 still missing bits of kdev_t
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:32:34 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200201041932.TAA226337.aeb@cwi.nl> (raw)
> (I suggested having init_special_inode taking a kdev_t argument as its
> third arg, but viro yelled at me :))
Yes. If you think that a kdev_t is a pointer to a struct with
device information, then having a kdev_t there is wrong,
because a special device node can have arbitrary major,minor
not necessarily belonging to any device, so rdev should just
have the numbers.
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 19:32 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
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2002-01-04 19:24 2.5.2-pre7 still missing bits of kdev_t Andries.Brouwer
2002-01-04 21:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-04 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-05 0:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-04 13:21 Andries.Brouwer
2002-01-04 1:47 Andries.Brouwer
2002-01-04 0:05 Alessandro Suardi
2002-01-04 0:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-04 2:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-04 6:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-04 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-04 17:34 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-01-04 17:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-04 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-04 18:11 ` Alexander Viro
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