Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 09:40:23 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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Also for 2.5, kdev_t needs to go away, along with all those arrays based on major number, and be replaced with either "struct char_device" or "struct block_device" depending on the device.
I actually went through the kernel in 2.4.0-test days and did this. Most kdev_t usages should really be changed to "struct block_device". The only annoyance in the conversion was ROOT_DEV and similar things that are tied into the boot process. I didn't want to change that and potentially break the boot protocol...
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