Re: NFS looking good!

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Aug 1998 21:58:07 GMT


Followup to: <199808250837.BAA13685@freya.yggdrasil.com>
By author: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@freya.yggdrasil.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> >
> > > The "semaphore in use" messages are serious -- that really shouldn't be
> > > happening. Is device 08:15 the NFS mount perchance?
> >
> > Hmm. If '08:15' means Major 8 / Minor 15, then there is no such device
>
> No. It is in hex. I really don't like reading hex without "0x" :-(.
> Linus, here is a patch.
>

Given the fact that devices are usually given in decimal (mknod, ls,
etc.) why don't we change it to decimal, please?

-hpa

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