On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> char devices don't have partitions, so you hardly need regions. The
> problem with the tty layer is that the console and the serial devices
> should have different majors.
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..
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