Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:46:21 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] alternative dev patch |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > char devices don't have partitions, so you hardly need regions. The > problem with the tty layer is that the console and the serial devices > should have different majors.
That;s not exactly true. A tradition major device is nothing but a region with a fixed size, and we need to get rid of this major/minor thinking. Converting a dev_t to struct char_device * / struct block_device * early is the way we wan't to go for that. It helped the block layer a lot..
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