Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:35:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:35:18 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:21260 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:35:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:46:21 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Roman Zippel Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative dev patch Message-ID: <20030323084621.A6788@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Roman Zippel , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 16 On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > char devices don't have partitions, so you hardly need regions. The > problem with the tty layer is that the console and the serial devices > should have different majors. 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.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/