On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> One disadvantage of enlarging the size of dev_t is
> that struct inode grows. Bad.
> We used to have i_dev and i_rdev; today i_rdev has split into
> i_rdev, i_bdev and i_cdev. Bad.
>
> It looks like these four fields can be replaced by a single one,
> making struct inode smaller. Not bad.
No, they can't. We _can_ put i_bdev/i_cdev into union and we can
kill i_dev. However, rdev and [cb]dev will have to remain separate.
BTW, watch out for socket.c use of ->i_dev.
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