Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:43:59 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 13:22 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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?
What was the objection?
My search only came up with a discussion about possibly making this a generic capability for all devices: http://marc.info/?t=118646704500006&r=1&w=2
Regards, Dan
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