dev_t / udev_t confusion ?

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:55 am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <53993.1086779790 at critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >The change proposed is more or less to do:
> >	s/dev_t/struct cdev */
> >	s/udev_t/dev_t/
> >over all the kernel sources (366 files or so).
>
> Looks like a "yea" so far, so I have a couple of follow-up questions:
>
> 	struct cdev currently has members named si_* because it
> 	used to be called "specinfo", do we want to change that
> 	inconsistency at the same time ? (either by reverting to
> 	the specinfo name or by changing to a cd_ prefix ?

Sure, maybe dev_foo prefix?  cd_ is fine though, just pick one and be 
consistent.

> 	cdevsw->ioctl() takes a caddr_t pointer argument which
> 	really should be a void *, do we want to change that
> 	as well (since it is all the same files we'll have to
> 	change).

Ok with me.

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