Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:55:23 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? |
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Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> And it's not just a few 10s of lines of code currently, >> but rather about 80-100 lines just to find the correct device subdir, >> and *then* a few more 10s of lines of code to retrieve the value. > > Hmm, 100 lines? What else do you need? > > $ grep -l 8:3 /sys/class/block/*/dev > /sys/class/block/sdc/dev >
That's particularly funny, because your very own example gives the wrong result -- sdc is 8:32 not 8:3 (which is sdc3, which is also excluded by your search.)
Not to mention the fact that it is still O(n).
-hpa
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