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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
Date: 21 Apr 2003 16:02:47 -0700
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Followup to:  <UTC200304212143.h3LLh6e02148.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author:    Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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> 
> and in fact the patches I have been giving out use kdev_t
> as internal format, where you can think of kdev_t as
> u64, or, if you prefer, as struct { u32 major, minor; }.
> 

Any reason why we don't just *make it* a struct?  (Well, besides that
it'd somewhat suck on 64-bit architectures?)

	-hpa
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