Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:39:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm |
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Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:13:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The new dev_t encoding is a bit weird because we of course continue to > > support the old 8:8 encoding. I think the rule is: "if the top 32-bits are > > zero, it is 8:8, otherwise 32:32". We can express this nicely with > > "%u:%u". > > 16-bit only: 8:8, otherwise 32-bit only: 16:16, otherwise 32:32. >
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