Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271145AbTGPVUG (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271147AbTGPVUG (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:20:06 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:15364 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271145AbTGPVUA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:20:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:34:51 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716130915.035a13ca.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716210253.GD2279@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 16 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. Andries - 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/