Bug 2647

Summary: makedevs package lacks support for 16-bit major/minor numbers
Product: buildroot Reporter: Matt Fleming <matt>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: buildroot
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: patch to handle 16-bit minors

Description Matt Fleming 2010-09-27 10:07:32 UTC 
The attached patch adds support for creating device nodes with 16-bit major/minor numbers.
Comment 1 Matt Fleming 2010-09-27 10:15:33 UTC 
Created attachment 2539 [details]
patch to handle 16-bit minors
Comment 2 Peter Korsgaard 2011-01-14 21:51:19 UTC 
Committed thanks. Linux actually supports 12bit majors / 20bit minors, so I slightly adjusted the patch.