From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Get USB Device Class Type and Mount point
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:02:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120213150219.GA7328@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F38FEC0.8050505@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 05:44:56PM +0530, Abhijit Pawar wrote:
> The reason I went for kernel module is to get the device add
> notification. However once I get the notification, I can have
> netlink socket pass the device data to my user space application.
Like others pointed out, use libudev for this, that's the only way you
can properly do it.
> Here the tricky part is I can get the device info, but not able to
> figure out how can I get the mount path from this device.
Within the kernel you can not. Think of namespaces, and all that fun
stuff, it will not work properly within the kernel.
Again, if you are using an encrypted filesystem, just use what Linux
provides for this today. Is there something there that does not meet
your needs?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 6:10 Get USB Device Class Type and Mount point Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-09 6:22 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-09 12:23 ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 13:48 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-09 14:47 ` Greg KH
2012-02-10 13:49 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-10 14:12 ` Greg KH
2012-02-13 12:14 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-13 12:21 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2012-02-13 12:31 ` Abhijit Pawar
2012-02-13 15:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-02-14 11:38 ` Abhijit Pawar
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