Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 18:35:51 EST


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

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