Re: [RFC] lazy allocation of struct block_device

[Alan Cox]

> Not an option for any tree I'd ever run on my box and IIRC Linus was not
> likely to inflict that on his.  As for the glibc...
> 	a) not everything uses this piece of shit
> 	b) it would be really nice to get rid of it completely someday

In the userspace world the 64bit dev_t doesn't show up in anyones profiles
its an unusual opaque cookie compare, or a cast (and the cast case gcc
generates nice code for anyway). 

Alan