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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: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:28:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090511192827.GA19776@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A086CF8.3000503@ascenium.com>

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:22:48AM -0700, Robert Mykland wrote:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Please don't use html, the linux-kernel list will reject it.

> I want to do this in the kernel because I want to apply some particular
> file security measures to a specific device, but not to all devices
> with a vfat file system.

But you would do that from userspace right?

What block driver would be able to look into the file system contents?

> Thus a need to identify the device from the file system driver.

What driver needs this to be added to it?

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-09  0:16 Vendor info from device name Robert Mykland
2009-05-09  4:34 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <4A086CF8.3000503@ascenium.com>
2009-05-11 19:28     ` Greg KH [this message]

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