dev_t / udev_t confusion ?

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:16:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I have an item on my TODO list which says "fix dev_t / udev_t kernel
> confusion before 5-STABLE ?".
> 
> The confusions is that in userland dev_t is an integer type which
> encodes the major+minor number of a device, in the kernel it it a
> pointer to "struct cdev" which represents the device to the kernel.

Go for solving the confusion, phk.  I'd sacrifice compatibility with
other BSDs here in sake of coherency.

./danfe