Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06T20:46:57Z

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.

Linus