From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dev_t [1/3]
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:53:04 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200303182353.h2INr3p14431.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> So, kill cdev_cachep, cdev_cache_init,
> cdfind, cdget, cdput, inode->i_cdev, struct char_device.
> All of this is dead code today.
You're also removing refcount code... why not fix it up instead?
I agree your patch is mostly correct from a "today" standpoint,
but from a long term standpoint ...
Your remarks have been made a few times already, and each
time I answered that my objective was to give Linux 2.6
a 32-bit dev_t, and my objective is not to do work that
is not for 2.6 but for 2.8.
Al made a brief appearance last week - if he decides to do
the character device setup now, that might change things.
If he doesnt do this then I wouldnt mind doing it,
but I suppose dev_t will keep us busy for some more time.
There is good progress on the kernel side, but we also
need some glibc fixes.
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2003-03-18 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 23:53 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
2003-03-19 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
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2003-03-19 0:25 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-18 21:45 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-18 22:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-19 22:01 ` Greg KH
2003-03-19 22:28 ` Roman Zippel
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