On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> [the whole purpose of struct block_device is to provide the link
> between a device number and a struct block_device_operations.
> struct char_device has no such function, indeed, no function at all]
Why do you think, the same shouldn't be done for char_device?
You are removing the wrong infrastructure, check how block_dev.c changed
between 2.4 and 2.5 and the same still needs to be done for char_dev.c.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I don't think such things will happen before 2.6.
It is very easy to add this code again for 2.7 if desired.
Today it is just a lot of dead code.
Andries
(And for me the question is still open whether we really want
something like struct char_device for 2.7.)
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