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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro  -- clusters
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:35:12 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The internal representation is kdev_t, which wants to turn into a pointer
> 
> No.
> 
> That kdev_t has been around for years, and is going away. In 2.6 there
> will _be_ no kdev_t.
> 
> There is "struct block_device" for internal stuff, and "dev_t" for
> external stuff. The first one is a real structure, the second one is just
> a cookie.

Ok so kdev_t will split into structs for char and block device which are
seperate things ?
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