SCO buffer addressing
Boyd Roberts
boyd at prl.dec.com
Wed May 29 01:43:55 AEST 1991
Perhaps it's a more general System V problem as the high bit
of `b_dev' may be set depending on the file-system type. There's
some hideous macro `bmajor()' that will mash off that bit. Use
it instead of major().
The bit is required to determine the block size of the I/O blah blah
inside the driver. The whole thing is a steaming crock of merde...
Boyd Roberts boyd at prl.dec.com
``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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