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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dev_t [1/3]
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:29:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030318222918.GD23134@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200303182145.h2ILjEB29313.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:45:14PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> The first patch is the cdev-kill patch that I sent out
> earlier. It is no use having two forms of chardev registration
> in the source, and my version of the path of small modifications
> does not pass through this version, although the final result
> will not be that different. 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 I think fixing up the code as intended would be
the best path.  It would be silly to remove this code only to add it
again.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-18 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-18 21:45 [PATCH] dev_t [1/3] Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-18 22:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-03-19 22:01 ` Greg KH
2003-03-19 22:28   ` Roman Zippel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-18 23:53 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-19  0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-19  0:25 Andries.Brouwer

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