Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:09:55 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dev_t [1/3] |
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > 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. >
What does that whole hash/cache/refcount setup in there actually do, and why can we afford to remove it for 2.6?
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