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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:29:11 +0700
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
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:
> 
> I have an item on my TODO list which says "fix dev_t / udev_t kernel
> confusion before 5-STABLE ?".
> 
> The confusions is that in userland dev_t is an integer type which
> encodes the major+minor number of a device, in the kernel it it a
> pointer to "struct cdev" which represents the device to the kernel.

Go for solving the confusion, phk.  I'd sacrifice compatibility with
other BSDs here in sake of coherency.

./danfe