From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271588AbTGQWKA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:10:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271589AbTGQWKA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:10:00 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:6148 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271588AbTGQWJ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:09:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:24:51 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andries Brouwer , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030718002451.A2569@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> <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:55:07PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andries Brouwer 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. > > But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a fileutils upgrade is OK. [I think I already answered - please ask again if not.] Premise: some filesystems or archives store 32 bits. Conclusion: we must be able to handle that. This is unrelated to the kernel, unrelated to system calls, it is related to .