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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:52:49 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:39:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Change the type of the mknod arg from dev_t to unsigned int.
> Add (for i386) mknod64.

Please make the argument for mknod/mknod64 __u32/__u64.  And I
don't think adding the syscall makes sense before the internal
dev_t represantion has changed.