Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21T22:51:08Z

Followup to: <UTC200304212143.h3LLh6e02148.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> and in fact the patches I have been giving out use kdev_t
> as internal format, where you can think of kdev_t as
> u64, or, if you prefer, as struct { u32 major, minor; }.
>

Any reason why we don't just *make it* a struct? (Well, besides that
it'd somewhat suck on 64-bit architectures?)

-hpa
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