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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:50:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> I know - still it makes Linus' suggestion not work on ~90% of the
> systems.

It doesn't matter if user-land compilation breaks. As long as old binaries
work (and they will), we're fine.

User-land was _already_ broken. By virtue of using a type that it should
NOT have used.

If you want to use __kernel_dev_t, go ahead.

		Linus

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