dev_t / udev_t confusion ?

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:16:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Personally I don't think there is much need for a long discussion
> and I would prefer to see simply a show of hands for yes and no,
> and any hear any really heavy duty arguments pro et contra. 

I'd say yes. I find the names device_t and dev_t overly confusing
in the kernel; one refers to NEWBUS, the other to cdev. Going to
an explicit structure pointer I would find less confusing. I also
find the use of the same type name differently in kernel and userland
confusing.

Regards
BMS