[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Move parts of init_dev() into new functions

[H. Peter Anvin]

sukadev at us.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>> 	tty = driver->ops->get_tty(driver, inode [, other_stuff?]);
> 
> Can the inode be used to identify the driver too ?  (but inode to driver
> mapping is not trivial atm).

It can, but it's an O(n) operation in the number of registered drivers. 
  However, we can only call the above if we know the driver in the first 
place so such a lookup is rather pointless.

	-hpa
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