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Subject: Re: Patch: linux-2.5.2-pre8/fs/intermezzo kdev_t compilation fixes
To: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:13:54 +0000 (GMT)
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> 	In the long term, the Intermezzo team may want to look into
> whether kdev_t will reliably not use the most significant bit of
> an int (the sign bit), which seems to be the assumption in some of
> the error handling code.  I don't think that problem is imminent,
> however, as I think the currently planned kdev_t expansion is only
> to twenty bits.

12:20 = 32bits
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