Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm | Date | 16 Jul 2003 15:10:19 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> By author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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. > > > > Why do we need the 16:16 option? >
We needs 32-bit for NFSv2, but I thought it was going to be 12:20.
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