Re: 2.5.74-mm3

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 11:02:14 EST


> The v1 ioctl interface passes the dev in as a __kernel_dev_t, so
> unfortunately if you change the size of __kernel_dev_t you will have
> to rebuild the tools.
>
> The v4 ioctl interface just uses a __u64 which I hope will be future
> proof.

This was the only thing that made the 32bit ioctls different to the 64bit
ones on ppc64, so changing it to __u64 is a good thing.

Anton
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