Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:43:51 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: Submitting patches for unmaintained areas (Solaris x86 UFS bug) |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:10:10PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:06:29 +0100, Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've run into a bug in the UFS reading code (on Solaris x86 the > > major/minor numbers are in 2nd indirect offset not the first), so I've > > patched it & bugzilled it > > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3475). > > > > But where do I go from here? There doesn't seem to be a maintainer for > > UFS so I can't send it there. > > > > After advice from Alan (thanks), here's the patch which addresses the > problem I'm seeing. Specifically it appears that on x86 Solaris stores > the major/minor device numbers in the 2nd indirect block, not the > first.
1) please, move old_encode_dev()/old_decode_dev() into your helper functions. 2) we could do a bit better now that we have large dev_t. What are complete rules for a) Solaris userland dev_t => on-disk data b) major/minor => Solaris userland dev_t on sparc and x86 Solaris? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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