From:	 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To:	 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux/Pro  -- clusters
Date:	 Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:37:11 -0800 (PST)
Cc:	 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>


On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> The internal representation is kdev_t, which wants to turn into a pointer

No.

That kdev_t has been around for years, and is going away. In 2.6 there
will _be_ no kdev_t.

There is "struct block_device" for internal stuff, and "dev_t" for
external stuff. The first one is a real structure, the second one is just
a cookie.

		Linus

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