what's the point behind "new_valid_dev" always returning 1?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  from include/liunx/kdev_t.h:

static inline int new_valid_dev(dev_t dev)
{
        return 1;
}

  is there some point to a test function that simply returns
hard-coded true, and has been around since 2005?  just curious.

rday

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