On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..
I basically agree, I only want to note that the block layer only has to
deal with disks, where we have different types of character devices. So
having one major per serial/tape/tty/... devices might not be necessary,
but it could makes things bit easier. In any case the actual drivers
should not see any of this.
bye, Roman
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