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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 09:40:23 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
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        tytso@MIT.EDU, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
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Also for 2.5, kdev_t needs to go away, along with all those arrays based
on major number, and be replaced with either "struct char_device" or
"struct block_device" depending on the device.

I actually went through the kernel in 2.4.0-test days and did this. 
Most kdev_t usages should really be changed to "struct block_device". 
The only annoyance in the conversion was ROOT_DEV and similar things
that are tied into the boot process.  I didn't want to change that and
potentially break the boot protocol...

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