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

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

christos%zoulas.com@localhost said:
> You fixed some printfs but not all of them, why?

Perhaps I forgot some, but mostly it was for the reasons
mentioned - mostly where the result of minor() is interpreted
as device unit number or pty index.
I've changed some more of the userland tools affected and run
a full build. Well, it works, but I don't like it. At least
for the userland tools where others might look at or want to
adopt... it is just unreadable and non-portable. Everywhere
else major()/minor() return an "int". Signed or unsigned,
at least something which can be printed by "%d", "%u" and "%x".
I don't see enough justification yet to change this.
Changing the return value of getdevmajor() to be the same
as major() is needed and correct, and introducing devmajor_t
is fine too - as long as it is a signed or unsigned int.
At least before 5.0 we should neither add casts everywhere
nor introduce the format macros.

best regards
Matthias




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