From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill i_cdev and struct char_device
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:45:46 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302080041590.32518-100000@serv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200302072317.h17NHbZ08117.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
Hi,
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> [the whole purpose of struct block_device is to provide the link
> between a device number and a struct block_device_operations.
> struct char_device has no such function, indeed, no function at all]
Why do you think, the same shouldn't be done for char_device?
You are removing the wrong infrastructure, check how block_dev.c changed
between 2.4 and 2.5 and the same still needs to be done for char_dev.c.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-07 23:36 UTC|newest]
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2003-02-07 23:17 Andries.Brouwer
2003-02-07 23:45 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2003-02-08 0:31 Andries.Brouwer
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