Re: USB device allocation

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:35:38 -0400


"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> Actually, the need is for a decent-sized dev_t.

We're still pre-code-freeze... it would be great to change this before
2.4.0.

What is a suitable replacement? Comments in asm-i386/posix_types.h,
where __kernel_dev_t is defined, indicate that GCC cannot be assumed.
Given that, I guess you can't use 'long long' to promote dev_t to
64-bits.

Jeff

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