Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> A new format is fine but import old ones properly. And if you do a new format
> stop using kdev_t on disk - it will change size soon
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Not to mention that it might end up being a pointer, or go away (to be
replaced with kchrdev_t, kblkdev_t or something like that.)
*** kdev_t does not belong in user space or on disk; it is a kernel
transient object. ***
Personally I can't believe this code went into the mainstream kernel
*at all* with this wart in it.
-hpa
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