[PATCH] Re: NFS "dev_t" issues..

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

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Linus,

What do you think about the attached simple patch, making the cookie
size more explicit?

I was looking at fixing up reiserfs, which already has 32-bit storage
for dev_t on-disk, and the following change came to mind.

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Index: include/linux/kdev_t.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_5/include/linux/kdev_t.h,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 kdev_t.h
--- include/linux/kdev_t.h	2002/01/01 22:41:11	1.2
+++ include/linux/kdev_t.h	2002/01/01 23:02:10
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
  * internal equality comparisons and for things
  * like NFS filehandle conversion.
  */
-static inline unsigned int kdev_val(kdev_t dev)
+static inline u32 kdev_val(kdev_t dev)
 {
 	return dev.value;
 }