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Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:45:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Hi,

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> [the whole purpose of struct block_device is to provide the link
> between a device number and a struct block_device_operations.
> struct char_device has no such function, indeed, no function at all]

Why do you think, the same shouldn't be done for char_device?
You are removing the wrong infrastructure, check how block_dev.c changed 
between 2.4 and 2.5 and the same still needs to be done for char_dev.c.

bye, Roman