From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
Date: 21 Apr 2003 11:42:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b81e2a$tev$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org
Followup to: <20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org>
By author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Umm, no. You're far to major/minor biased to realized live get a lot
> sipler for use if we don't do any complicated mapping of old dev_t
> to the larger dev_t. With the proper ranges we can just map it
> numerically 1:1 to the new dev_t. Yes, that means it's all in one
> new "major". But who cares?
>
Everyone who has to fix up the resulting mess. There is such a thing
as backwards compatibility, you know, and it's usually a good thing.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-21 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-20 21:26 [PATCH] new system call mknod64 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 21:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-20 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 11:59 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-21 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:21 ` viro
2003-04-21 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:27 ` viro
2003-04-21 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:54 ` viro
2003-04-21 19:16 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-21 18:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-04-21 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-21 18:58 ` viro
2003-04-21 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:35 ` viro
2003-04-21 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 23:49 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] <20030421215009$2052@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030421231010$7ee3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030422000016$17e3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030422083014$0fe2@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-04-22 20:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-22 1:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-22 1:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-22 2:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-22 2:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-22 6:00 ` jw schultz
2003-04-22 17:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 21:48 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21 21:43 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 23:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 23:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-22 8:24 ` Shachar Shemesh
2003-04-20 22:12 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 6:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-20 20:34 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 21:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-20 18:39 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
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