Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271104AbTGPVb2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:31:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271120AbTGPVb2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:31:28 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:19088 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271104AbTGPVb1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:31:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:39:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andries Brouwer Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-Id: <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716130915.035a13ca.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716210253.GD2279@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 18 Andries Brouwer 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? - 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/