Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:34:26 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Getting past the 16-bit dev_t limitation. |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <39C1637B.8945251A@kahuna.cag.cpqcorp.net> > By author: John Byrne <jbyrne@kahuna.cag.cpqcorp.net> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Anyway, one of the things I was hoping to find out by going to > > linux-kernel was if there was anything other than devfs in the offing: > > such a larger dev_t. So if anyone wants to chime in on things other than > > devfs, I'd certainly like to hear about it. > > > > A larger dev_t is a "must have" item for 2.5.
And devfs doesn't provide NOTHING to facilitate it...
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