Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269639AbTHBQyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:54:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269671AbTHBQyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:54:45 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:10515 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269639AbTHBQyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:54:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 17:54:01 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joe Thornber Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [Patch 3/6] dm: decimal device num sscanf Message-ID: <20030802175401.A31970@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Joe Thornber , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Mailing List References: <20030731104517.GD394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731104953.GG394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731160429.A14613@infradead.org> <20030731151326.GZ394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731162000.A15112@infradead.org> <20030731152454.GA394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <20030731171443.A23456@infradead.org> <20030731162745.GE394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030731162745.GE394@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>; from thornber@sistina.com on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:27:45PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 18 On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:27:45PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > So why do you do it in kernel again? > > Let's reverse the question, why are you deprecating passing a dev_t > into the kernel ? (I'm not being awkward, just confused). Because we want to keep dev_t use down as much as possible. It should just be a small cookie for looking up the correspoding object where it's required by posix. Everywhere outside that scope we better deal with pathnames because they are much more meaningfull. And with udev and dynamic dev_t around the corner the actual values become more and more meaningless. - 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/