Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:32:34 GMT | Subject | Re: 2.5.2-pre7 still missing bits of kdev_t |
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> (I suggested having init_special_inode taking a kdev_t argument as its > third arg, but viro yelled at me :))
Yes. If you think that a kdev_t is a pointer to a struct with device information, then having a kdev_t there is wrong, because a special device node can have arbitrary major,minor not necessarily belonging to any device, so rdev should just have the numbers.
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