On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Basheer, Mansoor Ahamed wrote:

Hi,

Current mknod implementation fails for major/minor number greater than 255.

is linux kernel supporting major/minor numbers greater than 255 ?

I'm suggesting following change. Please comment.

-Mansoor

Signed-off-by: Mansoor Ahamed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--- libc/sysdeps/linux/common/mknod.c 2008-03-11 17:43:54.000000000 +0530 +++ libc/sysdeps/linux/common/mknod.c 2008-03-11 17:45:21.000000000 +0530
@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ static inline _syscall3(int, __syscall_m  int
mknod(const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)  {
        /* We must convert the dev_t value to a __kernel_dev_t */
-       __kernel_dev_t k_dev;
+       __kernel_dev_t k_dev = (__kernel_dev_t)dev;

-       k_dev = ((major(dev) & 0xff) << 8) | (minor(dev) & 0xff);
        return __syscall_mknod(path, mode, k_dev);  }
 libc_hidden_def(mknod)

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