Re: USB device allocation
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:44:14 -0700
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> > Actually, the need is for a decent-sized dev_t.
>
> We're still pre-code-freeze... it would be great to change this before
> 2.4.0.
>
> What is a suitable replacement? Comments in asm-i386/posix_types.h,
> where __kernel_dev_t is defined, indicate that GCC cannot be assumed.
> Given that, I guess you can't use 'long long' to promote dev_t to
> 64-bits.
>
Actually, that's not true -- glibc already uses a 64-bit dev_t, so
that's the logical size. Inside the kernel, the easiest is to make
kdev_t a pair of 32-bit integers.
-hpa
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