From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:00:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:00:13 -0400 Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.103]:10901 "EHLO pimout4-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:00:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@trommello.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu, Alan Cox Subject: What's the status of 32 bit dev_t? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:06:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200210251506.24743.landley@trommello.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan said that 32 bit dev_t was one of the most important remaining new features, but I haven't seen a patch submitted for inclusion. Closest anybody's been able to dredge up is an old plan from Al Viro, which lwn.net linked to here: http://lwn.net/Articles/11583/ Is this a 2.5.45 thing? Could it possibly go in after the feature freeze (I.E. without any API changes)? Is it now deferred until the next development cycle? Is there, in point of fact, a patch against 2.5.44? Rob -- http://penguicon.sf.net - Terry Pratchett, Eric Raymond, Pete Abrams, Illiad, CmdrTaco, liquid nitrogen ice cream, and caffienated jello. Well why not?