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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
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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
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    > 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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