Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20030422060013.GO16934@pegasys.ws>
By author:    jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:52:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > >>
> > >>The main advantage with making it a struct is that it keep people from
> > >>doing stupid stuff like (int)dev where dev is a kdev_t...  There is
> > >>all kinds of shit like that in the kernel...
> > > 
> > > If you want that good quality 64-bit code, try making it a struct
> > > containing just a u64 :)
> > > 
> > 
> > Perhaps:
> > 
> > #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> > typedef struct { u64 val; } kdev_t;
> > 
> > /* Macros for major minor mkdev */
> > #else
> > typedef struct { u32 major, minor; } kdev_t;
> > 
> > /* Macros... */
> > #endif
> > 
> 
> or a union?
> typedef union { u64 dev; struct { u32 major, minor; } d; } kdev_t;
> 

No... what I want to avoid, again, are idiots^Wpeople doing:

      foo = (int) dev->dev;

... or something like that.

	-hpa
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