Re: 2.5.74-mm3

Anton Blanchard
2003-07-11T15:49:08Z

> The v1 ioctl interface passes the dev in as a __kernel_dev_t, so
> unfortunately if you change the size of __kernel_dev_t you will have
> to rebuild the tools.
>
> The v4 ioctl interface just uses a __u64 which I hope will be future
> proof.

This was the only thing that made the 32bit ioctls different to the 64bit
ones on ppc64, so changing it to __u64 is a good thing.

Anton