Re: [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor

H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21T18:37:43Z

Followup to: <UTC200304210139.h3L1duq18832.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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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