From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261807AbTDUR6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:58:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261820AbTDUR6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:58:13 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:11018 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261807AbTDUR6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:58:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:10:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Roman Zippel , "David S. Miller" , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 Message-ID: <20030421191013.A9655@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Roman Zippel , "David S. Miller" , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:01:21AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:01:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, the split has huge meaning inside the kernel. We split the number > every time we open the device, and use that split to look up the result. Not anymore for blockdevices. And now that Al's back not anymore soon for charater devices, too :) Really, it's a bad idea to introduce this arbitrary split now that the major/minor split is basically gone inkernel after lots of hard work.