From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261860AbTDUSaT (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261863AbTDUSaT (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:30:19 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:18703 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261860AbTDUSaS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:30:18 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 Date: 21 Apr 2003 11:42:18 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20030421191013.A9655@infradead.org> <20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20030421193546.A10287@infradead.org> By author: Christoph Hellwig In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Umm, no. You're far to major/minor biased to realized live get a lot > sipler for use if we don't do any complicated mapping of old dev_t > to the larger dev_t. With the proper ranges we can just map it > numerically 1:1 to the new dev_t. Yes, that means it's all in one > new "major". But who cares? > Everyone who has to fix up the resulting mess. There is such a thing as backwards compatibility, you know, and it's usually a good thing. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64