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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:33:19 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5
> > stream.  Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?
> 
> Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the
> lateness of it?  I didn't think it was going to happen.

I've never seen the patches so I cannot say.  But I'd at least like to get
the whole thing under test so we can make that evaulation.

> But if it is, a lot of character drivers need to be audited...

What has to be done there?
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