Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:30:34 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] alternative dev patch |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:19:56AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Look at drivers/usb/core/file.c::usb_open(), it does much the same > thing. Well, functionally the same, not identical in any way :)
And sound (well, not actually ranges), input, v4l, tty, etc.. ->i_cdev together with char device probes would have solved that nicely and without the linear list serach in ->open that we got now, which will bite us much more once 32bit dev_ts are actually used.
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