From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] revert register_chrdev_region change
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:10:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030324191057.B23239@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200303241907.h2OJ75619479.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:07:05PM +0100
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:07:05PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Yes, it is more elegant to register one or more ranges.
> (But ranges of what? Ranges in dev_t space? Or in kdev_t space?
In dev_t space.
> Here you see one reason to wait a little until dev_t/kdev_t
> stuff has settled.)
I guess basically everyone will disagree with you on making kdev_t
a different representation. This will end up as messy as the
internal/external dev_t stuff on some of the SVR4 ports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-24 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-24 19:07 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-24 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-03-24 20:55 ` Roman Zippel
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2003-03-24 22:40 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-24 22:52 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-24 22:06 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-24 22:28 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-24 20:34 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-24 20:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-23 23:25 Roman Zippel
2003-03-24 14:25 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-24 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-24 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24 16:09 ` Roman Zippel
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