Re: [RFC] lazy allocation of struct block_device

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:49:37 +0100 (BST)


> Not an option for any tree I'd ever run on my box and IIRC Linus was not
> likely to inflict that on his. As for the glibc...
> a) not everything uses this piece of shit
> b) it would be really nice to get rid of it completely someday

In the userspace world the 64bit dev_t doesn't show up in anyones profiles
its an unusual opaque cookie compare, or a cast (and the cast case gcc
generates nice code for anyway).

Alan
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