From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>,
Alex Q Chen <aqchen@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor numbers
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010514181356.U6223@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105141302.PAA14005@cave.bitwizard.nl> <E14zJmj-0000p3-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14zJmj-0000p3-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:57:21PM +0100
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:57:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 20:12 is more common
> >
> > Which is major, which is minor?
>
> 20bit major
Well, AIX 4.3 (and 4.[12] I think as well) uses 16:16, and they
are preparing for 32:32 when the kernel finaly goes fully 64-bit. I
don't know enough about AIX 5.1 to know if they really did that or
backed down on their promise (The kernel guys told me two years ago that
they were going to push the full 64-bit migration, but I haven't heard
anything since).
Joel
--
"We'd better get back, `cause it'll be dark soon,
and they mostly come at night. Mostly."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-14 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-14 1:28 Alex Q Chen
2001-05-14 8:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 13:02 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-14 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 16:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-14 17:13 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2001-05-14 16:53 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-14 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 17:05 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-14 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 18:09 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-14 20:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 21:05 Andries.Brouwer
2002-11-01 15:40 Minor Numbers sah
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