Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:53:04 +0100 (MET) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dev_t [1/3] |
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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> 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 ...
Your remarks have been made a few times already, and each time I answered that my objective was to give Linux 2.6 a 32-bit dev_t, and my objective is not to do work that is not for 2.6 but for 2.8.
Al made a brief appearance last week - if he decides to do the character device setup now, that might change things.
If he doesnt do this then I wouldnt mind doing it, but I suppose dev_t will keep us busy for some more time. There is good progress on the kernel side, but we also need some glibc fixes.
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