From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sdake@mvista.com, dougg@torque.net,
kurt@garloff.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 32bit dev_t
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:51:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030125015108.GN20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200301242204.h0OM4jU09451.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:04:45PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Once or twice a year I build a kernel with 32bit or 64bit dev_t.
> Every now and then submit a few patches so that doing so
> remains easy. The last real change was the change in prototype
> of the VFS *_mknod functions.
It's good to know that the actual changes are small, but I was
specifically wondering what the status was as far as inclusion. If
there are issues, what are they? Etc.
Joel
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-24 22:04 32bit dev_t Andries.Brouwer
2003-01-25 1:51 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-02-03 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-21 19:50 Joel Becker
2003-01-21 21:29 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-21 21:56 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-21 22:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-21 22:33 ` Alan
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