Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:19:39 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's left for 64 bit dev_t
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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> Ok, to change the topic a bit, what's left to do on the 64bit dev_t
> stuff?

I don't know, really.  I've asked this of Andries several times and either
he doesn't know either, or I didn't understand the answer.

But there have been no problems with the code in -mm for a couple of months.

>  I know your tree has some support, but there was rumors that
> more was really needed to finish this off right.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thoughts?  Patches?  :)

The fact that the code has not been tested on ppc and, presumably, several
other platforms is a problem, but I guess that'll work itself out.

The situation at present is that Linus will take the patches, but I ain't
sending them because viro has expressed oblique concerns over the approach.
 I'd like to get his take on it before proceeding.  But he has vanished
again.  However I do expect that he'll get a chance to review and comment on the
changes soon.

The other concern is the unknown amount of followup work which is needed. 
All I can say there is that the kernel will continue to work in the areas
which have been exercised by testers of the -mm kernels.

I expect we'll end up just jamming it in and seeing what happens.
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