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21 years ago

Device nodes: major, minor numbers

I have been using the Nios II IDE to rebuild and upload my romfs filesystem image to my uKit development board. I previously did not have a problem communicating via ttyS0. Now I am having...
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21 years ago

To fix this bug, the application source ls.c has to be modified. It can be found in application source directory fileutils. The problematic codes start from line 307: 

    if (S_ISBLK(statbuf->st_mode) || S_ISCHR(statbuf->st_mode))
                     sprintf(cp, "%3d, %3d ", statbuf->st_rdev >> 8,
                              statbuf->st_rdev & 0xff);

To fix this bug, please change them to 

    if (S_ISBLK(statbuf->st_mode) || S_ISCHR(statbuf->st_mode))
                    sprintf(cp, "%3d, %3d ", (unsigned int)(statbuf->st_rdev >> 8),
                             (unsigned int)(statbuf->st_rdev & 0xff));