On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:16:17PM +0530, SandeepKsinha wrote: > Hi, > to my surprise, > the sizeof dev_t differs in userspace and kernel. > Its 8 bytes in userspace and 4bytes in kernel. > > I am working on a driver, where I include the headers in both user and > kernel space. > And I get wrong values due to the difference in sizes. > > How do I handle such a situation ?
Why would you be passing a dev_t from user to kernel space as a binary value? Why do you want to pass such a value across the boundry in the first place? Could you describe what the problem is you are trying to sove by doing this? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
