From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@digeo.com,
andrey@eccentric.mae.cornell.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: major/minor split
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:47:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320214740.GP2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303202146100.12110-100000@serv>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:00:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> There is a point I'd like to get clear: where should the 16bit<->32bit
> dev_t conversion happen?
> I think any software that cares about this should be safe by now. That
> leaves us with on-disk and on-wire formats and IMO only at these places a
> conversion should happen.
Actually, no. mknod(8), ls(1), and friends still assume struct
stat with u16.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 21:40 major/minor split Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-20 21:00 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-20 21:47 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-03-20 22:03 ` Joel Becker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-20 22:24 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-20 23:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-21 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 23:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-21 7:35 Andries.Brouwer
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