Re: lib/39215: getdevmajor()/major() types don't match

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 31,  8:46pm, M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost (Matthias Drochner) 
wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lib/39215: getdevmajor()/major() types don't match

| dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost said:
| > Probably changing major() (and minor(), for symmetry) to produce an
| > unsigned value
| 
| The kernel is using int for majors and minors, and is using -1
| as special value. I'd say we should adjust getdevmajor() - it
| is NetBSD specific and used at only one place in the tree.
| (and the error check against ~0 is ugly)
| I've just done a full build with the appended patch - would that
| work for you?
| 
| best regards
| Matthias

Don't change dev_t back to int please. dev_t in the christos_time_t branch
is uint64_t!

christos