From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Robert Mykland <robert@ascenium.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vendor info from device name
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:34:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090509043422.GA13794@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A04CB41.3040008@ascenium.com>
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 05:16:01PM -0700, Robert Mykland wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am inside a file system driver, a modified version of vfat to be
> exact, trying to get vendor info that uniquely identifies a USB storage
> device that's associated. I have the device name coming into
> vfat_get_sb(). I looked down through the associated structures I get
> here but nothing obvious pops out. What's the best way to get down to
> the vendor/unique device info from here? Thanks in advance for your
> help and apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
Do this from userspace, with the tools provided in the udev package,
vol_id and friends.
Why would you want to do this within the kernel?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 5:03 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-09 0:16 Vendor info from device name Robert Mykland
2009-05-09 4:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2009-05-11 19:28 ` Greg KH
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