From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271358AbTGQJJ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:09:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271359AbTGQJJ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:09:26 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:34516 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271358AbTGQJJX (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:09:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:24:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joel Becker Cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org, aebr@win.tue.nl, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-Id: <20030717022444.19c204ef.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717091515.GC19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20030716210253.GD2279@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716222015.GB1964@win.tue.nl> <20030716152143.6ab7d7d3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717082716.GA19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20030717091515.GC19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> 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 Joel Becker wrote: > > Well, exporting devices over NFS is always tricky, because if > the server isn't an identical OS, you can't even trust the numbers. As > you point out, you get the platform's idea of a device number, and that > doesn't map to your local OS. And surely the task of mangling whatever comes off the wire into a dev_t for init_special_inode() should be private to the Linux NFS client? Still wondering why we need to support a 16:16 encoding in [k]dev_t.