Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:35:38 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > Actually, the need is for a decent-sized dev_t.
We're still pre-code-freeze... it would be great to change this before 2.4.0.
What is a suitable replacement? Comments in asm-i386/posix_types.h, where __kernel_dev_t is defined, indicate that GCC cannot be assumed. Given that, I guess you can't use 'long long' to promote dev_t to 64-bits.
Jeff
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