It sounds as if you expect a lot of old cruft.
But the compatibility code is just ten lines or so.
Internally the kernel has an index. Externally there is a dev_t.
At open() time the dev_t is converted. At registration time
sd announces interest in three or four dev_t regions.
That is all.
Andries
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