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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:14:41 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] die kdevname(), die!
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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:10:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I really think that replacing "kdevname()" with "__bdevname()" is a step 
> in the wrong direction (or at least sideways).

kdevname() is the really wrong interface because it doesn't know whether
we have a character or block device.  __bdevname is a bit better because
it's block-device specific.  It's not perfect yet, though.