Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 | Date | 21 Apr 2003 11:51:09 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304211141590.9109-100000@home.transmeta.com> By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Yes, we could make dev_t's internally be always 32+32, and do the > marshalling at stat() time. That would actually be my preferred approach, > and would solve some of the problems with using "dev_t" as an opaque type > right now (ie it would solve the "discontiguous region" issue. >
That would be Andries' kdev_t approach.
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