On Tue, Apr 5, 2016, at 20:37, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> I'm not applying this until the kernel actually supports device numbers
> that large. Currently it defines (in include/linux/kdev_t.h):
>
> static inline u32 new_encode_dev(dev_t dev) { ... }
> static inline dev_t new_decode_dev(u32 dev) { ... }
>
> static inline u64 huge_encode_dev(dev_t dev)
> {
> return new_encode_dev(dev);
> }
>
> static inline dev_t huge_decode_dev(u64 dev)
> {
> return new_decode_dev(dev);
> }
>
> i.e. anything above bit 31 is zeroed.
>
> Ben.
>
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for calling my attention
to it. Under the circumstances, wishlist is fine.
Regards,
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