Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

Alan Cox
2001-12-06T22:26:42Z

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The internal representation is kdev_t, which wants to turn into a pointer
>
> No.
>
> That kdev_t has been around for years, and is going away. In 2.6 there
> will _be_ no kdev_t.
>
> There is "struct block_device" for internal stuff, and "dev_t" for
> external stuff. The first one is a real structure, the second one is just
> a cookie.

Ok so kdev_t will split into structs for char and block device which are
seperate things ?