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From: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org>
To: "David F." <df7729@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What populates /proc/partitions ?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:46:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190930234618.GA5536@onstation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRSmLsV96jK+7UB6T6k8j9u74oPSHTA+1TPU8F9G2NnOqCDJg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 03:47:21PM -0700, David F. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to find out why fd0 is being added to /proc/partitions and stop
> that for my build.  I've searched "/proc/partitions" and "partitions",
> not finding anything that matters.

It looks like it is done in block/genhd.c with this function:

static int __init proc_genhd_init(void)
{
        proc_create_seq("diskstats", 0, NULL, &diskstats_op);
        proc_create_seq("partitions", 0, NULL, &partitions_op);
        return 0;
}
module_init(proc_genhd_init);

Brian


> 
> If udev is doing it, what function is it call so I can search on that?
> 
> TIA!!

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-30 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-30 22:47 David F.
2019-09-30 23:46 ` Brian Masney [this message]
2019-09-30 23:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-01  0:13   ` David F.
2019-10-01  3:38     ` David F.
2019-10-01  4:59       ` David F.

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