On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 7:37 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Correct. It's literally the compat structure that has no basis in reality.
>
> Or it might be some truly ancient thing, but I really don't think so.
I was intrigued, so I went back and checked.
unsigned short st_dev;
unsigned short __pad1;
is in fact historical. But it was changed to
unsigned long st_dev;
(for i386, so this is a 32-bit 'unsigned long') on April 2, 2003.
