Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 15:09:15 EST


Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a patch against 2.6.0-test1-mm that fixes up the different places
> where we export a dev_t to userspace. This fixes all of the compiler
> warnings that were previously reported with these files.

I added this as well:

static inline char *format_dev_t(char *buffer, dev_t dev)
{
        sprintf(buffer, "%04lx\n", (unsigned long)dev);
        return buffer;
}

tp be placed direct in a printk().

We'll probably need to do something more fancy in here later, because once
a dev_t becomes 32:32, it'll need to be printed out with "%016llx", which
is daft.

So we'll need to come up with some standardised way of presenting a dev_t
to the user. Presumably that will just be

        sprintf(buf, "%d:%d", major(dev), minor(dev));
        
But if we do this, will it break your existing stuff?

> If I should put the print_dev_t() function in a different header file,
> please let me know.

Seems OK. Every kdev_t.h includer now needs to include kernel.h too. Fair
enough.
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