Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>
> > Why would anyone hand the kernel a 32-bit device number? They're either 16
> > or 64, are they not?
>
> The kernel has no control over what userspace comes with.
> And here userspace includes filesystems.
> Not all filesystems know how to come with 64 bits.
What does "comes with" mean?
Please describe a scenario in which a filesystem which works on current
kernels will, in a 64-bit-dev_t kernel, call init_special_inode() with a
16:16 encoded device number.
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