Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:11:27 +0200 | | From | Andries Brouwer <> | | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder |
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:12:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There's also all the user-level interfaces for dev_t, and the disk layout > interfaces used by various filesystems. > > We can easily make kdev_t be 32-bit, but without a 32-bit dev_t that > doesn't help much.
There is no real problem. You know I did this several times and also sent patches at various points in time. Asking Google yields
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0038.html
as the first reference, and it has all relevant details and an example patch.
(There was a discussion about 32 vs 64 bits. Of course 64 is better in all respects, but it is no longer feasible so today it must be 32. Too bad.)
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