From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261916AbTDUSlA (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:41:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261883AbTDUSkO (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:40:14 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:13072 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261876AbTDUSjc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:39:32 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 Date: 21 Apr 2003 11:51:09 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <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: By author: Linus Torvalds In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Yes, we could make dev_t's internally be always 32+32, and do the > marshalling at stat() time. That would actually be my preferred approach, > and would solve some of the problems with using "dev_t" as an opaque type > right now (ie it would solve the "discontiguous region" issue. > That would be Andries' kdev_t approach. -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