From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev callout for reading filesystem labels
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:36:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404301636.37604.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429210446.GA9836@vrfy.org>
Am Freitag, 30. April 2004 15:35 schrieb Kevin P. Fleming:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > here is a small udev toy, which enables udev to name partitions by
> > its filesystem label or uuid's.
>
> This is very cool, thanks Kay!
>
> I notice that this is yet another hotplug-related tool that has to
> create a temporary device node to be able to read the contents of the
> block device. Has anyone considered extending the kernel to actually
> have an open-by-major/minor syscall (obviously limited to root only)?
How about passing an fd to the hotplug agent in the first place?
Regards
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-30 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-29 21:04 [PATCH] udev callout for reading filesystem labels Kay Sievers
2004-04-30 13:35 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-04-30 14:36 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-04-30 22:29 ` Greg KH
2004-05-05 1:14 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-05 21:24 ` Greg KH
2004-05-06 9:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-06 20:18 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-06 22:59 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-07 14:02 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-07 18:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-07 21:52 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-08 11:29 ` Kay Sievers
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2004-05-08 16:52 arndb
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