From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, <hch@infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:56:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304201454100.1563-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030420.144336.74721439.davem@redhat.com>
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Such an abstract statement nobody can disagree with.
> Do you have an opinion in the mknod case?
>
> If you are trying to reach 64-bit dev_t's, why not
> use __u64 as the argument?
That's not correct either.
I will refuse a patch that just takes "dev_t", since I just think that's
stupid.
The kernel should get major and minor numbers. It's a sad mistake that
UNIX uses "dev_t" in the first place, and clearly the glibc interface to
user mode will have to be that historical braindamage. But we should
realize that the _right_ interface is keeping the <major, minor> tuple
explicit, and any new system call interfaces should be of that type.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-20 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-20 21:26 [PATCH] new system call mknod64 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 21:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-20 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-04-21 11:59 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-21 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:21 ` viro
2003-04-21 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:27 ` viro
2003-04-21 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:54 ` viro
2003-04-21 19:16 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-21 18:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:58 ` viro
2003-04-21 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:35 ` viro
2003-04-21 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 23:49 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] <20030421215009$2052@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030421231010$7ee3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030422000016$17e3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030422083014$0fe2@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-04-22 20:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-22 1:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-22 1:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-22 2:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-22 2:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-22 6:00 ` jw schultz
2003-04-22 17:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 21:48 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 21:43 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 23:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 23:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-22 8:24 ` Shachar Shemesh
2003-04-20 22:12 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 6:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-20 20:34 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 21:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-20 18:39 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
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