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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed change: d_thread_t for driver portability between 4.x and 5.x 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:39:59 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:47:19 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109271737470.65838-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> Julian Elischer writes:
: I think that it should have a Comment stating that it is a compatibility
: thing and that drivers for just -current should just use struct thread
: directly.

Excellent idea.

: Certainly any function that DOES look under the covers should be expressly
: forbidden from using d_thread_t.

Yes.  I'll note that as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

Warner

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