Linus,
What do you think about the attached simple patch, making the cookie
size more explicit?
I was looking at fixing up reiserfs, which already has 32-bit storage
for dev_t on-disk, and the following change came to mind.
-- Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno
Index: include/linux/kdev_t.h =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_5/include/linux/kdev_t.h,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 kdev_t.h --- include/linux/kdev_t.h 2002/01/01 22:41:11 1.2 +++ include/linux/kdev_t.h 2002/01/01 23:02:10 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ * internal equality comparisons and for things * like NFS filehandle conversion. */ -static inline unsigned int kdev_val(kdev_t dev) +static inline u32 kdev_val(kdev_t dev) { return dev.value; }
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