On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:10:05AM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:

 > yes, I understood that the new field would really live in struct specinfo.
 > my point is just that since the device info is available as
 > vp->v_specinfo->si_foo, what's so great about referring to it as vp->v_foo?
 > everything that would use vp->v_foo already has to make sure that it's
 > operating on a device vnode, so why clutter the namespace?

It's already done as a nice shorthand for the other specinfo bits, so
I just followed precedent.

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