Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:32:01PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > IMHO that's a bad change, (un)register_blkdev should just go away
> > > completly.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be best if the kernel became perfect at once.
> > But the patch is rather large. Better go in small steps.
> > 
> > Did you read the patch?
> 
> Yes, I did.  What I object to is the prototype changes you did which
> make absolutely no sense to get into 2.5 now when the functions will
> disappear before 2.6.  Feel free to change the actual implementation,
> I couldn't care less on you wasting your time on that :)

32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5
stream.  Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?