From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 02:02:14 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm3 Message-ID: <20030711160214.GH7348@krispykreme> References: <20030708223548.791247f5.akpm@osdl.org> <200307101821.h6AIL87u013299@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20030711082532.GA432@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711082532.GA432@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Joe Thornber Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > The v1 ioctl interface passes the dev in as a __kernel_dev_t, so > unfortunately if you change the size of __kernel_dev_t you will have > to rebuild the tools. > > The v4 ioctl interface just uses a __u64 which I hope will be future > proof. This was the only thing that made the 32bit ioctls different to the 64bit ones on ppc64, so changing it to __u64 is a good thing. Anton -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org