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From: Brian Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: dev_t / udev_t confusion ?
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:16:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> [...]
> The change proposed is more or less to do:
> 	s/dev_t/struct cdev */
> 	s/udev_t/dev_t/
> over all the kernel sources (366 files or so).
> [....]

One yes vote, please.  The dev_t structure is not treated as opaque,
so as long as people are going to->dereference it, it deserves to be
a struct *.


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