Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:09:18 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev_t / udev_t confusion ? Message-ID: <20040610020918.GF4623@empiric.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <53993.1086779790@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <53993.1086779790@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:16:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Personally I don't think there is much need for a long discussion > and I would prefer to see simply a show of hands for yes and no, > and any hear any really heavy duty arguments pro et contra. I'd say yes. I find the names device_t and dev_t overly confusing in the kernel; one refers to NEWBUS, the other to cdev. Going to an explicit structure pointer I would find less confusing. I also find the use of the same type name differently in kernel and userland confusing. Regards BMS
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