From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271412AbTGQLFH (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271422AbTGQLFH (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:07 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:29455 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271412AbTGQLFC (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:19:55 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717122600.A2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from miquels@cistron.nl on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32. Look at the mknod utility. The user types major,minor. The system call uses dev_t. This means that user space needs to be able to combine major,minor into a dev_t. It is not a good idea to require of mknod that it knows about the filesystem the node is going to be created on. Andries [In other words: we invent something, and what we invent is encoded in . It cannot depend on fs type.]