Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm

Andrew Morton
2003-07-17T21:48:04Z

Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>
> > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32.
>
> Look at the mknod utility.
> The user types major,minor.
> The system call uses dev_t.
> This means that user space needs to be able to combine
> major,minor into a dev_t.

But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a util-linux upgrade is OK.