Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:11:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] alternative dev patch |
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Hi,
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..
I basically agree, I only want to note that the block layer only has to deal with disks, where we have different types of character devices. So having one major per serial/tape/tty/... devices might not be necessary, but it could makes things bit easier. In any case the actual drivers should not see any of this.
bye, Roman
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