Re: larger kdev_t, was PUBLIC CHALLENGE...

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:05:05 -0400


Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:58:04 -0400
From: mike mangino <mangino@cis.ohio-state.edu>

> I think the main problem is that it's grunt work that no one has
> volunteered to go and do it. It's not particularly hard, it's just not
> particularly uplifting.

I will do these.

Great!!

From the information I've seen, the best thing is probably to use a
struct with two 32 bit values in it. Is there agreement in this area?
If so, I'll start working this weekend.

Yup. See the comments in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h; there
are some fairly detailed design notes there. Note the date on them:
950811. :-(

- Ted

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