On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:41:11PM -0700, John Byrne wrote:
> 1.) Any decision on what the bigger dev_t will be? 16-bit major and
> 16-bit minor, for example?
My old code does something like this:
major = (dev >> 32);
minor = (dev & 0x);
if (!major) {
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author:John Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Anyway, one of the things I was hoping to find out by going to
> > linux-kernel was if there was anything other than devfs in the offing:
> > such
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author:John Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Anyway, one of the things I was hoping to find out by going to
> > linux-kernel was if there was anything other than devfs in the offing:
> > such
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:John Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Anyway, one of the things I was hoping to find out by going to
> linux-kernel was if there was anything other than devfs in the offing:
> such a larger dev_t. So if anyone wants to ch
Matt Yourst wrote:
>
> >
> >I am working on a project that is going to find the current limit of
> >16-bits for device numbers to be a pain. While looking around in the
> >linux-kernel archive, ...
> >
> This is the whole reason Linux 2.4 uses devfs (device filesystem) -
> there is no need to use
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Matt Yourst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >
> >I am working on a project that is going to find the current limit of
> >16-bits for device numbers to be a pain. While looking around in the
> >linux-kernel archive, ...
> >
>
Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> John Byrne wrote:
>
> > 1.) Can anyone tell me if there is a (Linus approved) solution in the
> > works for this for the 2.4.xx kernel series?
>
> > I am also curious whether there are plans to do away with the whole
> > concept of major/minor numbers;
>
> Consider rea
>
>I am working on a project that is going to find the current limit of
>16-bits for device numbers to be a pain. While looking around in the
>linux-kernel archive, ...
>
This is the whole reason Linux 2.4 uses devfs (device filesystem) -
there is no need to use device numbers; you just register
John Byrne wrote:
> 1.) Can anyone tell me if there is a (Linus approved) solution in the
> works for this for the 2.4.xx kernel series?
> I am also curious whether there are plans to do away with the whole
> concept of major/minor numbers;
Consider reading up on devfs, which is now integrated
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