Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:52:49 +0100

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:39:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Change the type of the mknod arg from dev_t to unsigned int.
> Add (for i386) mknod64.

Please make the argument for mknod/mknod64 __u32/__u64. And I
don't think adding the syscall makes sense before the internal
dev_t represantion has changed.

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