> Recall that uid_t, gid_t and dev_t both have -1 (0xffff) reserved
> in a 16-bit environment;
This suggests a particular way of going to a larger dev_t.
I have been using (and am using a kernel like this right now):
static inline kdev_t to_kdev_t(dev_t dev)
{
int major, minor;
major = (dev >> 32);
if (!major) {
major = (dev >> 16);
if (!major) {
major = (dev >> 8);
minor = (dev & 0xff);
} else
minor = (dev & 0xffff);
} else
minor = (dev & 0xffffffff);
return MKDEV(major, minor);
}
I am not aware of any disadvantages of this system,
although, now that I think about it, the fact that
multiple representations yield the same (major,minor)
has both advantages and disadvantages.
So far I have not encountered real problems.
Andries
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