Re: Minor numbers

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 12:04:31 EST


> No. Inside the kernel the dev_t type does not really occur.
> The exercise is essentially the patch that I sent last month or so.

mknod takes a 32bit input
the stat64 padding only has room for 32bits

The kernel representation internally I dont care about, its probably a pointer
not a 32:32 though

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