UNION UBIFS_DEV_DESC(9)

🎀 union ubifs_dev_desc 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for union ubifs_dev_desc, the device node descriptor. it's giving tiny struct, big major/minor numbers energy. 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

union ubifs_dev_desc — device node descriptor. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

union ubifs_dev_desc {
    __le32 new;
    __le64 huge;
};

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🧚 Members 🧚

• new — new type device descriptor. 🎀
• huge — huge type device descriptor. 👑

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🌸 Description 🌸

This data structure describes the major/minor numbers of a device node. literally its whole personality. ✨

If an inode is a device node, then its data contains an object of this type. no cap.

UBIFS uses the standard Linux "new" and "huge" device node encodings. iykyk — iconic behavior. 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/ubifs-media.h:

• struct ubifs_ch(9)
• struct ubifs_ino_node(9)
• struct ubifs_dent_node(9)
• struct ubifs_data_node(9)
• struct ubifs_trun_node(9)
• struct ubifs_pad_node(9)
• struct ubifs_sb_node(9)
• struct ubifs_mst_node(9)
• struct ubifs_ref_node(9)
• struct ubifs_auth_node(9)
• struct ubifs_sig_node(9)
• struct ubifs_branch(9)
• struct ubifs_idx_node(9)
• struct ubifs_cs_node(9)
• struct ubifs_orph_node(9)

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xoxo, from the ./fs/ubifs source tree, October 2026 — union ubifs_dev_desc(9) out. 💖🎀🫶