Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 | Date | 21 Apr 2003 11:42:18 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org> By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Umm, no. You're far to major/minor biased to realized live get a lot > sipler for use if we don't do any complicated mapping of old dev_t > to the larger dev_t. With the proper ranges we can just map it > numerically 1:1 to the new dev_t. Yes, that means it's all in one > new "major". But who cares? >
Everyone who has to fix up the resulting mess. There is such a thing as backwards compatibility, you know, and it's usually a good thing.
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