Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 | Date | 21 Apr 2003 16:02:47 -0700 |
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Followup to: <UTC200304212143.h3LLh6e02148.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > and in fact the patches I have been giving out use kdev_t > as internal format, where you can think of kdev_t as > u64, or, if you prefer, as struct { u32 major, minor; }. >
Any reason why we don't just *make it* a struct? (Well, besides that it'd somewhat suck on 64-bit architectures?)
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