Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:30:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:32:01PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > > IMHO that's a bad change, (un)register_blkdev should just go away > > > completly. > > > > Yes, it would be best if the kernel became perfect at once. > > But the patch is rather large. Better go in small steps. > > > > Did you read the patch? > > Yes, I did. What I object to is the prototype changes you did which > make absolutely no sense to get into 2.5 now when the functions will > disappear before 2.6. Feel free to change the actual implementation, > I couldn't care less on you wasting your time on that :)
32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5 stream. Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?
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