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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:16:57 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum status
Message-ID:  <20010407211657.B4055@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010407172348.A76422@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:23:48PM %2B0930
References:  <3ACB7215.F40BE906@ele.etsmtl.ca> <20010407172348.A76422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010407075917.A7354@dragon.nuxi.com> <3ACB7215.F40BE906@ele.etsmtl.ca> <20010407172348.A76422@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:59:18AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:23:48PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > +/* XXX kludge until we get this struct cleaned up */
> > +#if _KERNEL
> >      dev_t dev;                                             /* device information */
> 
> What do you mean by "until we get this struct cleaned up"?
> PHK and Mike Smith explained what dev_t in the kernel (plus udev_t) vs.
> dev_t in userland are.  I saw no indication that was going to change.

I asume exactly what Greg wrote:
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:23:48PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
[...]
> tends to obfuscate the code.  As others have observed, a better
> solution would be to remove the dev_t from the expurgated version of
> the struct.  I have some code in preparation which does this, so it
> really doesn't seem to make any sense to change so much code.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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