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SubjectRe: memory waste in fs/devices.c/kdevname()
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Followup to:  <199812200055.TAA05793@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >> Or just keep them everywhere decimal or everywhere hex (or octal).
> >
> > That's the thing; it is everywhere decimal *except* in kernel
> > messages. This is a Bad Thing[TM].
>
> In that case, we must fix /bin/ls and devices.txt to use hex.
> The kernel is perfectly correct.
>

... not to mention mknod and every d*mn script ever written. No
thanks.

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