Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:48:12 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev_t / udev_t confusion ? Message-ID: <20040609164812.GW9228@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <55790.1086796559@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <53993.1086779790@critter.freebsd.dk> <55790.1086796559@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <53993.1086779790@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > >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). > > Looks like a "yea" so far, so I have a couple of follow-up questions: > > struct cdev currently has members named si_* because it > used to be called "specinfo", do we want to change that > inconsistency at the same time ? (either by reverting to > the specinfo name or by changing to a cd_ prefix ? Sounds reasonable. > cdevsw->ioctl() takes a caddr_t pointer argument which > really should be a void *, do we want to change that > as well (since it is all the same files we'll have to > change). Yes, please! :-) Cheers, Maxime
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