Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21T18:41:00Z

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304211141590.9109-100000@home.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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
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