Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
21 Apr 2003 18:32:04 -0700

Followup to: <UTC200304220102.h3M126n06187.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well, I have also done that of course. Both struct and u64 work well.
> Since only kdev_t.h knows about the actual structure of kdev_t
> it is very easy to switch.
>

The main advantage with making it a struct is that it keep people from
doing stupid stuff like (int)dev where dev is a kdev_t... There is
all kinds of shit like that in the kernel...

-hpa

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