> This was done to abstract the storage/lookup
> method. Currently with only 256 minors per major
> a simply kernel list is adequate, however once
> the kernel goes to 20-bit minors a list will not
> be sufficient.
Before that happens you'll get nice private pointers in the higher
level objects so you don't need to do lookups in any fast-path
anymore..
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