[PATCH] mknod fix for major/minor number greater than 255

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Khem Raj wrote:

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> On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Basheer, Mansoor Ahamed wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Current mknod implementation fails for major/minor number greater than 255.
>
> is linux kernel supporting major/minor numbers greater than 255 ?

the *kernel* supports major/minor numbers of bit length (12,20).  it's
only userspace that restricts their values to (8,8).

rday
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