Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:11:27 +0200


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:12:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> There's also all the user-level interfaces for dev_t, and the disk layout
> interfaces used by various filesystems.
>
> We can easily make kdev_t be 32-bit, but without a 32-bit dev_t that
> doesn't help much.

There is no real problem. You know I did this several times
and also sent patches at various points in time. Asking Google yields

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0038.html

as the first reference, and it has all relevant details and an example patch.

(There was a discussion about 32 vs 64 bits. Of course 64 is better
in all respects, but it is no longer feasible so today it must be 32.
Too bad.)

Andries
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