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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor
Date: 21 Apr 2003 11:49:22 -0700
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Followup to:  <UTC200304210139.h3L1duq18832.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author:    Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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>
> A second version of mknod64 for i386.
> There are no assumptions on the size of dev_t.
> 
> sys_mknod takes unsigned int (instead of dev_t)
> sys_mknod64 takes two unsigned ints.
> 

Why unsigned int?  If we have a legacy call it should presumably use
the legacy __u16 format.

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