Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 19:28:55 EST

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>> dev_t rdev;

> Reasonable.

Good. We all agree.
(But now you see what I meant in comments about mknod.)

>> kdev_t dev;

> Useless. If you hope that block_device will help to solve rmmod races

Yes. Why am I mistaken?

Andries
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