Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:22:47 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs |
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:04:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Given an fd on a block device, returns a string like > > /block/sda/sda1 > > which can be used to find related information in /sys. > > Ideally we should have an ioctl that works on char devices as well, > but that seems far from trivial, so it seems reasonable to have > this until the latter can be implemented.
What did you do to address Viro's reasonable rejection of this when it came up last time?
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