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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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