From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ralf Oehler <R.Oehler@GDAmbH.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: missing get_empty_inode()
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:53:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509115309.B18745@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030509112703.R.Oehler@GDAmbH.com>; from R.Oehler@GDAmbH.com on Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:27:03AM +0200
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Ralf Oehler wrote:
> Hello, list
>
> Currently I'm porting my driver sources from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 an I noticed
> the absence of get_empty_inode().
> I didn't find an exported function to get a sb-less inode.
There is none. Inodes must have superblocks associated to them.
> My goal is to open sd- and an sg- devices in order to do
> ioctl(send_scsi_cmd) on them. As my driver acts as a block device driver
> (layered pseudo block device), there is no sb assigned to it.
>
> What is, according to the current philosophy, the cleanest code-sniplet to
>
> - open
> - ioctl
> - close
>
> an sd-device ?
> an sg-device ?
open it from userspace.
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2003-05-09 9:27 Ralf Oehler
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