Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Joel Becker wrote:

> 	I'm right here campaigning loudly for a larger dev_t.  I intend
> to never, ever make assumptions about dev_t.  In fact, I'd rather not
> deal with dev_t.  But I do need a way to map 4k or 8k or 16k disks.
> now.

Fine, so write the software to do this, but what exactly is there still 
for the kernel to do?

bye, Roman