Re: [PATCH] alternative dev patch

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> char devices don't have partitions, so you hardly need regions. The 
> problem with the tty layer is that the console and the serial devices 
> should have different majors.

That;s not exactly true.  A tradition major device is nothing but a
region with a fixed size, and we need to get rid of this major/minor
thinking.  Converting a dev_t to struct char_device * / struct block_device *
early is the way we wan't to go for that.  It helped the block layer
a lot..