That's not correct either.
I will refuse a patch that just takes "dev_t", since I just think that's
stupid.
The kernel should get major and minor numbers. It's a sad mistake that
UNIX uses "dev_t" in the first place, and clearly the glibc interface to
user mode will have to be that historical braindamage. But we should
realize that the _right_ interface is keeping the <major, minor> tuple
explicit, and any new system call interfaces should be of that type.
Linus
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