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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:42:38 -0400
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: dev_t / udev_t confusion ?
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At 8:43 AM -0400 6/9/04, Brian Feldman wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004, 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 *.

This sounds like the right path to me.

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