Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:19:55 +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 10:46:35AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg 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.
It is not a good idea to require of mknod that it knows about the filesystem the node is going to be created on.
Andries
[In other words: we invent something, and what we invent is encoded in <sys/sysmacros.h>. It cannot depend on fs type.]
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