From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:11:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021002121127.GA19416@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210012007240.7688-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:12:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There's also all the user-level interfaces for dev_t, and the disk layout
> interfaces used by various filesystems.
>
> We can easily make kdev_t be 32-bit, but without a 32-bit dev_t that
> doesn't help much.
There is no real problem. You know I did this several times
and also sent patches at various points in time. Asking Google yields
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0038.html
as the first reference, and it has all relevant details and an example patch.
(There was a discussion about 32 vs 64 bits. Of course 64 is better
in all respects, but it is no longer feasible so today it must be 32.
Too bad.)
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 7:32 Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 7:39 ` DevilKin
2002-10-01 8:00 ` jbradford
2002-10-01 8:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 8:23 ` Thomas Molina
2002-10-01 8:27 ` DevilKin
2002-10-01 10:28 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-01 8:49 ` Gregoire Favre
2002-10-01 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-01 12:25 ` jlnance
2002-10-01 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 17:02 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-01 14:48 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-01 17:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-10-01 17:44 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-01 21:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-01 22:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-02 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-02 0:52 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-02 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-02 12:11 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-10-02 6:51 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-05 22:28 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-10-05 22:39 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-05 23:06 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-10-06 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-08 21:56 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] <fa.mpta6av.960ggh@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hu1gd9v.fku81p@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-01 7:41 ` Nils O. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sel=E5sdal=22?= <noselasd@Utel.no>
2002-10-01 11:39 Markus Weiss
2002-10-01 16:35 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
[not found] <96096729@toto.iv>
2002-10-01 23:06 ` Peter Chubb
2002-10-02 0:26 ` Chris Wedgwood
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