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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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> BTW there are a few more functions missing, we need a dev_to_u32()
> and a dev_to_u16(), so e.g. file systems can do something useful
> in mknod if they can't store the complete number.

In such cases I cannot see any meaningful action other than returning
EOVERFLOW (or EINVAL in case you prefer that).

Andries