Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264498AbTGBUwK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:52:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264499AbTGBUwK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:52:10 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:12948 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264498AbTGBUwG (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:52:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:06:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoloop Message-ID: <20030702210619.GA9362@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 21 On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:00:06PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Now suppose one wants a large dev_t. Some people do. > Then several steps are needed. One of these steps > is the addition of the mknod64 system call. > That is a nice small isolated step - part of the necessary > user space interface. It can be done independently of any > other steps. It was submitted, but is not in the present > kernel. Why not? I do not recall anybody pointing out problems. I was wondering what had happened here with this. What is left to do to finish full support? thanks, greg k-h - 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/