Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:12:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> There's also all the user-level interfaces for dev_t, and the disk layout 
> interfaces used by various filesystems.
> 
> We can easily make kdev_t be 32-bit, but without a 32-bit dev_t that 
> doesn't help much.

There is no real problem. You know I did this several times
and also sent patches at various points in time. Asking Google yields

	http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0038.html

as the first reference, and it has all relevant details and an example patch.

(There was a discussion about 32 vs 64 bits. Of course 64 is better
in all respects, but it is no longer feasible so today it must be 32.
Too bad.)

Andries