On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> I know - still it makes Linus' suggestion not work on ~90% of the
> systems.
It doesn't matter if user-land compilation breaks. As long as old binaries
work (and they will), we're fine.
User-land was _already_ broken. By virtue of using a type that it should
NOT have used.
If you want to use __kernel_dev_t, go ahead.
Linus
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