From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, neilb@suse.de,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:22:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080126202246.GB28444@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080126050313.3756.13442.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-26 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-26 5:04 Dan Williams
2008-01-26 20:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-28 18:43 ` Dan Williams
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