From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, jgarzik@pobox.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dev_t [1/3]
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:09:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030318160955.20afccde.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200303182353.h2INr3p14431.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
>
> > So, kill cdev_cachep, cdev_cache_init,
> > cdfind, cdget, cdput, inode->i_cdev, struct char_device.
> > All of this is dead code today.
>
> You're also removing refcount code... why not fix it up instead?
>
> I agree your patch is mostly correct from a "today" standpoint,
> but from a long term standpoint ...
>
> Your remarks have been made a few times already, and each
> time I answered that my objective was to give Linux 2.6
> a 32-bit dev_t, and my objective is not to do work that
> is not for 2.6 but for 2.8.
>
What does that whole hash/cache/refcount setup in there actually do, and why
can we afford to remove it for 2.6?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-19 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 23:53 [PATCH] dev_t [1/3] Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-19 0:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2003-03-19 0:25 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-18 21:45 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-18 22:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-19 22:01 ` Greg KH
2003-03-19 22:28 ` Roman Zippel
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