Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [RFLART] kdev_t in ioctls

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:50:17 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> I know - still it makes Linus' suggestion not work on ~90% of the
> systems.

It doesn't matter if user-land compilation breaks. As long as old binaries
work (and they will), we're fine.

User-land was _already_ broken. By virtue of using a type that it should
NOT have used.

If you want to use __kernel_dev_t, go ahead.

Linus

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