Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:05:05 -0400 | | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | | Subject | Re: larger kdev_t, was PUBLIC CHALLENGE... |
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:58:04 -0400 From: mike mangino <mangino@cis.ohio-state.edu>
> I think the main problem is that it's grunt work that no one has > volunteered to go and do it. It's not particularly hard, it's just not > particularly uplifting. I will do these.
Great!!
From the information I've seen, the best thing is probably to use a struct with two 32 bit values in it. Is there agreement in this area? If so, I'll start working this weekend.
Yup. See the comments in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h; there are some fairly detailed design notes there. Note the date on them: 950811. :-(
- Ted
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