Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

Linus Torvalds
2001-12-09T04:29:35Z

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> Oh, well. It _is_ going to be quite painful to switch things around.
>
> I don't understand at all. It is not painful at all.
> Things are completely straightforward.
>
> A kdev_t is a pointer to all information needed, nowhere a lookup,
> except at open time.

No.

I refuse to have the same structure for block devices and character
devices. We already know that they are different.

Which means that I _will_ rename the thing.

Which means that the patch will be straightforward, but painful.

> I am sure also Al will tell you that there is no problem.

To me, touching a few hundred files, even if it's almost a
search-and-replace operation is always painful. Much more painful than
touching just one subsystem..

Linus