- use makedev to get device number, else it gives wrong major/minor numbers to devices files on systems which use big device numbers.

  Closes #919

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/makedevs.c b/miscutils/makedevs.c
index c25bdadc4..5602c2248 100644
--- a/miscutils/makedevs.c
+++ b/miscutils/makedevs.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ int makedevs_main(int argc, char **argv)
                                 full_name_inc = xmalloc(strlen(full_name) + 4);
                                 for (i = start; i < count; i++) {
                                         sprintf(full_name_inc, "%s%d", full_name, i);
-                                        rdev = (major << 8) + minor + (i * increment - start);
+                                        rdev = makedev(major, minor + (i * increment - start));
                                         if (mknod(full_name_inc, mode, rdev) == -1) {
                                                 bb_perror_msg("line %d: cannot create node %s", linenum, full_name_inc);
                                                 ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ int makedevs_main(int argc, char **argv)
                                 }
                                 free(full_name_inc);
                         } else {
-                                rdev = (major << 8) + minor;
+                                rdev = makedev(major, minor);
                                 if (mknod(full_name, mode, rdev) == -1) {
                                         bb_perror_msg("line %d: cannot create node %s", linenum, full_name);
                                         ret = EXIT_FAILURE;