Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:24:51 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote: > > > > > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32. > > > > Look at the mknod utility. > > The user types major,minor. > > The system call uses dev_t. > > This means that user space needs to be able to combine > > major,minor into a dev_t. > > But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a fileutils upgrade is OK.
[I think I already answered - please ask again if not.]
Premise: some filesystems or archives store 32 bits. Conclusion: we must be able to handle that. This is unrelated to the kernel, unrelated to system calls, it is related to <sys/sysmacros.h>.
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