Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > So we'll need to come up with some standardised way of presenting a dev_t
> > to the user.  Presumably that will just be
> > 
> > 	sprintf(buf, "%d:%d", major(dev), minor(dev));
> > 	
> > But if we do this, will it break your existing stuff?
> 
> No, I don't think there are any users of udev right now :)
> 
> I wouldn't mind the ':' being there, makes my life a bit easier, but for
> some reason Al Viro didn't want to do that a long time ago...
> 
> If we put the ':' in there, it protects userspace from having to deal
> with different sized dev_t, so that really makes sense.

OK, I think I'll make it so and hope he doesn't notice ;)

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".

Now I need to go hunt down all those places where I added casts to unsigned
longs in printks.  hrm.