Re: Linux device number bug report

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:55, Shen Feng wrote:
> In Linux kernel 2.6, device number will be extended from 16-bit to
> 32-bit. All utilities and libraries should make corresponding
> extension for this new feature in kernel 2.6.

Exactly.

> I find that “grub-0.93-7” uses variables "major" and "minor" to
> represent two different parts of device number, but the device number
> is operated as 16-bit.

I don't know what is grub-0.93-7.

> But this major considers both "major" and "minor" as 8-bit. It seems
> not to correspond to device number extension.

You are right.

> Since I didn’t find any information about this aspect in homepage of
> this package, I wonder whether the latest version has completed the
> device number extension? If not, will it be completed in the future?
> And when?

The answers are: "No", "I don't know", and "when someone contributes". 
As I don't have Linux 2.6.x, I don't work on it myself. I'd appreciate 
if you could work on it.

Okuji