From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271134AbTGPV5s (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:57:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271147AbTGPV5E (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:57:04 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:32519 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271134AbTGPVzu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:55:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Date: 16 Jul 2003 15:10:19 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> By author: Andrew Morton In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:13:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > The new dev_t encoding is a bit weird because we of course continue to > > > support the old 8:8 encoding. I think the rule is: "if the top 32-bits are > > > zero, it is 8:8, otherwise 32:32". We can express this nicely with > > > "%u:%u". > > > > 16-bit only: 8:8, otherwise 32-bit only: 16:16, otherwise 32:32. > > > > Why do we need the 16:16 option? > We needs 32-bit for NFSv2, but I thought it was going to be 12:20. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64