svn commit: r225154 - in projects/ino64/sys/ufs: ffs ufs

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday, August 27, 2011 2:55:39 pm Ed Schouten wrote:
> I think if we're ever going to consider extending dev_t, we should just
> nuke the entire major/minor number thing. If we're only going to fill
> them with 64 bits of random garbage, we'd better just display them
> hexadecimal or something.
> 
> This patch removes all the use of major()/minor()/makedev() as far as
> possible from all non-contributed software:
> 
> 	http://80386.nl/pub/major-minor.txt
> 
> Keep in mind that this doesn't conflict with POSIX, because POSIX only
> describes dev_t, not the division in major/minor numbers. For example,
> the output of ls -l on device nodes is implementation defined.
> 
> I suspect this message will cause bikesheds. ;-)

I care not how they are displayed.  Go for it.

-- 
John Baldwin