Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > Now, if somebody actually has the raw "kdev_t" in their on-disk
> > > structures, that's a real problem, but I don't think anybody does.
> > > Certainly I didn't see reiserfs do it (but it may well be missing a few
> > > "kdev_t_to_nr()" calls)
> >
> > AFAICS it does:
> >
> > include/linux/reiserfs.h:
> > #define sd_v1_rdev(sdp) (le32_to_cpu((sdp)->u.sd_rdev))
> > #define set_sd_v1_rdev(sdp,v) ((sdp)->u.sd_rdev = cpu_to_le32(v))
>
> Ok, just add the proper conversion functions, ie a "to_kdev_t()" and
> "kdev_t_to_nr()".
Actually, result of sd_v1_rdev() is only passed to init_special_inode()
which takes int rather than kdev_t.
Isn't this a bit strange, because file system backend has to convert
kdev_t to u32 on write, but not on read?
>
> Linus
Nikita.
>
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