Re: Larger dev_t

[Martin Dalecki]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Also for 2.5, kdev_t needs to go away, along with all those arrays based
> on major number, and be replaced with either "struct char_device" or
> "struct block_device" depending on the device.
> 
> I actually went through the kernel in 2.4.0-test days and did this.
> Most kdev_t usages should really be changed to "struct block_device".
> The only annoyance in the conversion was ROOT_DEV and similar things
> that are tied into the boot process.  I didn't want to change that and
> potentially break the boot protocol...

Please se the patches I have send roughly a year to the list as well.
It's actually NOT easy. In esp the SCSI and IDE-CD usage of minor arrays
is
a huge obstacle.

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