From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, hch@infradead.org
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Joel.Becker@oracle.com,
Wim.Coekaerts@oracle.com, ahu@ds9a.nl, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:32:33 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200304011832.h31IWXl19935.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)
> Why do we need a split at all?
Inside the kernel? No need at all.
But the Unix API is in terms of major,minor.
The NFS specification talks about major,minor.
The ISO 9660 (RockRidge) standard talks about major,minor.
Etc.
Inside the kernel we can do whatever we want, and no split
is required. In userspace such a split definitely exists.
See also mknod(1) and ls(1).
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-01 18:32 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-09 18:40 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing 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
2003-03-31 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 20:27 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
2003-03-31 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-27 1:09 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-27 19:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-30 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=UTC200304011832.h31IWXl19935.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl \
--to=andries.brouwer@cwi.nl \
--cc=Joel.Becker@oracle.com \
--cc=Wim.Coekaerts@oracle.com \
--cc=ahu@ds9a.nl \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=zippel@linux-m68k.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).