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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: tytso@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: struct tty_driver
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:44:07 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200302111444.h1BEi7106413.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)

Ted, I wondered:

Looking at 2.5.60 I see

struct tty_struct {
	int     magic;
	struct tty_driver driver;
...

and it looks like this struct tty_driver is never modified.
Since it is rather large, why not replace it by
	struct tty_driver *driver;
?

As it is now, the initialization in init_dev() does
	tty->driver = *driver;
just duplicating constant data.

Is this a historical relict, or does this duplication have a function?

Andries

             reply	other threads:[~2003-02-11 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-11 14:44 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
2003-02-12 18:52 ` Theodore Ts'o

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