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

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 16:36:07 EST


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:13:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> The new dev_t encoding is a bit weird because we of course continue to
> support the old 8:8 encoding. I think the rule is: "if the top 32-bits are
> zero, it is 8:8, otherwise 32:32". We can express this nicely with
> "%u:%u".

Sounds good, much appreciated.

> Now I need to go hunt down all those places where I added casts to unsigned
> longs in printks. hrm.

Heh, I think I got a few of them with my patch. Who else prints out the
dev_t value?

thanks,

greg k-h
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