From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor
Date: 21 Apr 2003 11:49:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b81efi$192$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UTC200304210139.h3L1duq18832.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl
Followup to: <UTC200304210139.h3L1duq18832.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> A second version of mknod64 for i386.
> There are no assumptions on the size of dev_t.
>
> sys_mknod takes unsigned int (instead of dev_t)
> sys_mknod64 takes two unsigned ints.
>
Why unsigned int? If we have a legacy call it should presumably use
the legacy __u16 format.
-hpa
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2003-04-21 1:39 [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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