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* NFS "dev_t" issues..
@ 2002-01-01 22:15 Linus Torvalds
  2002-01-01 22:38 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
                   ` (7 more replies)
  0 siblings, 8 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2002-01-01 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trond Myklebust, Neil Brown; +Cc: Kernel Mailing List, Marcelo Tosatti


I made a pre6, which contains a new-and-anal "kdev_t".

The format of the thing is the same as it used to be, ie 16 bits of
information, but I made it a structure so that you _couldn't_ mix up
"dev_t" and "kdev_t", or use the "kdev_t" as a number (so when kdev_t
expands to 12+20 bits later in 2.5.x you shouldn't get surprises)

I fixed up the stuff I use and which showed up in compiles (on a source
level, it's so far totally untested), but I'd really like people to check
out their own subsystems. _Especially_ NFS and NFSD, which had several
cases of mixing the two dev_t's around, and which also used them as
numbers. Trond, Neil?

Because the types aren't at all compatible any more, the macros that are
used for user-level "dev_t" are no longer working for a kdev_t. So we have

	dev_t			kdev_t

	MKDEV(major,minor)	mk_kdev(major, minor)
	MAJOR(dev)		major(dev)
	MINOR(dev)		minor(dev)
	dev == dev2		kdev_same(dev, dev2)
	!dev			kdev_none(dev)

and _most_ of the time the fixes are trivial - just translate as above. It
only gets interesting when you have code that looks at the value or starts
mixing the two and compares a "dev_t" against a "kdev_t", which can be
quite interesting.

The knfsd file handle thing is also an issue - Neil, please check out that
what I did looks sane, and would be on-the-wire-compatible with the old
behaviour, even when we expand kdev_t to 12+20 bits, ok?

(Marcelo, for easier backporting of drivers to 2.4.x, we'll probably want
to eventually add

	#define mk_kdev(a,b) MKDEV(a,b)
	#define major(d) MAJOR(d)
	...

to the 2.4.x <linux/kdev_t.h> so that you can move drivers back and
forth).

Apart from some knfsd issues, most of the kdev_t users were proper. The
strict type-checking found one bug in the SCSI layer (which I knew about,
and was one of the impetuses for doing it in the first place), and found a
lot of small "works-but-will-break-with-a-bigger-kdev_t" issues).

			Linus


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2002-01-01 22:15 NFS "dev_t" issues Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 22:38 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2002-01-01 22:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 22:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-01 23:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 23:04 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2002-01-01 23:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-01 23:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-02  5:45 ` Greg KH
2002-01-02 16:05 ` [PATCH] Make 2.5.2-pre6 usable Martin Dalecki
2002-01-03 15:11 ` [PATCH] usabe2-2.5.2-pre6 Martin Dalecki
2002-01-07 16:50 ` NFS "dev_t" issues Trond Myklebust
2002-01-08  9:29 ` PATCH 2.5.2-pre9 scsi cleanup Martin Dalecki
2002-01-09  4:05   ` GOTO Masanori

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