From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Wim Coekaerts <Wim.Coekaerts@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:07:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030331230720.GP32000@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303312215020.5042-100000@serv>
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:32:55PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> later. The ones who ask now for a larger dev_t the loudest are likely the
> first to demand later not change anything for "compability", because they
> hardcoded certain assumptions about dev_t into their applications.
I'm right here campaigning loudly for a larger dev_t. I intend
to never, ever make assumptions about dev_t. In fact, I'd rather not
deal with dev_t. But I do need a way to map 4k or 8k or 16k disks.
now.
Joel
--
"Up and down that road in our worn out shoes,
Talking bout good things and singing the blues."
Joel Becker
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-31 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-27 20:27 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 22:12 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-27 23:19 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 23:48 ` Greg KH
2003-03-28 9:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 18:05 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-28 18:48 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 8:31 ` bert hubert
2003-03-31 8:52 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 17:24 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-31 21:32 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-31 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-31 23:42 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-01 16:35 ` Greg KH
2003-04-02 13:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-01 16:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-01 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-02 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-02 7:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-31 23:45 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-31 23:07 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-03-31 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-09 18:40 James Bottomley
2003-04-09 20:54 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-10 2:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-04-10 12:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-10 15:30 ` James Bottomley
2003-04-10 23:53 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 0:01 ` David Lang
2003-04-11 0:17 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 0:47 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 1:11 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 18:36 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-09 21:11 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-01 18:32 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-31 23:41 Badari Pulavarty
2003-03-31 23:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-31 23:55 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-02 12:18 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-02 17:31 ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-02 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-03 10:09 ` David Lang
2003-04-03 11:14 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-04-03 12:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-03 13:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-03 14:01 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 20:10 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 21:57 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 22:43 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-08 15:22 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-08 22:53 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 23:11 ` David Lang
2003-04-08 23:47 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 23:58 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-08 23:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-08 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-09 0:40 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 1:02 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-09 1:25 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 16:42 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-09 0:21 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-08 15:29 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 15:33 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 15:49 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 11:46 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 11:57 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-28 11:10 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-28 11:36 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-30 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-30 20:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 22:37 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 22:55 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 1:09 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 19:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-30 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
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