Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:10:13 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 |
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:01:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, the split has huge meaning inside the kernel. We split the number > every time we open the device, and use that split to look up the result.
Not anymore for blockdevices. And now that Al's back not anymore soon for charater devices, too :)
Really, it's a bad idea to introduce this arbitrary split now that the major/minor split is basically gone inkernel after lots of hard work. - 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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