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

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