Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271038AbTGQVsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271578AbTGQVsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:48:04 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:38878 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271038AbTGQVrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:47:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:55:07 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andries Brouwer Cc: miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-Id: <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717122600.A2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.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: 617 Lines: 17 Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32. > > Look at the mknod utility. > The user types major,minor. > The system call uses dev_t. > This means that user space needs to be able to combine > major,minor into a dev_t. But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a util-linux upgrade is OK. - 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/