Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:55:07 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm |
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Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote: > > > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32. > > Look at the mknod utility. > The user types major,minor. > The system call uses dev_t. > This means that user space needs to be able to combine > major,minor into a dev_t.
But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a util-linux upgrade is OK.
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