Bug report [linux 2.2.14 and 2.3.3x], /proc/sys/real-root-dev not big-endian compliant.

[Patrick Lerda]

In file /usr/src/linux/kernel/sysctl.c, "/proc/sys/real-root-dev" is defined
as is:

	#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
      	  {KERN_REALROOTDEV, "real-root-dev", &real_root_dev, sizeof(int),
         	0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec},
	#endif


real_root_dev is defined as kdev_t type (typedef struct { unsigned short
major, minor; } kdev_t;).



this definition returns a different result on a big-endian and a
little-endian architecture.
This is quite wrong and need to be fixed!


Patrick LERDA




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