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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: major/minor split
Date: 20 Mar 2003 16:04:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5dkva$mgc$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303210016360.5042-100000@serv

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303210016360.5042-100000@serv>
By author:    Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I mean via mknod, e.g. if the user has a major/minor number, how should it 
> be converted to a dev_t number?
> 

Using MKDEV().  Basically, use the old format if it fits (for
compatibility), otherwise the new format.

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-20 22:24 major/minor split Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-20 23:23 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-21  0:04   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-20 23:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-21  7:35 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-19 21:40 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-20 21:00 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-20 21:47   ` Joel Becker
2003-03-20 22:03     ` Joel Becker

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