Re: memory waste in fs/devices.c/kdevname()

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 23:02:27 +0000 (GMT)

> Please let's make it output decimal numbers, too, like everything else
> that uses device numbers. Too many people have been confused about
> this like there is no tomorrow.

That would be incredibly incredibly mindbogglingly dumb

We would then have two sets of kernels where an error on 13:00 means two
totally different devices. Much saner would be to put 0x in front of the
output.

Alan

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