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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:21:39 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56
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On Wed May 08, 2002 at 01:18:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I can't speak directly for the Kudzu maintainer but I can say that having
> a sane way to obtain the list of ide devices (all of them not just non 
> pcmcia) and the device bindings/type has been a long standing request.

Can't one simply do something like:

char device_string[20];
int i, type, major=0, minor=0;
for(i=0; i<26; i++) {
    snprintf(device_string, sizeof(device_string), "/dev/hd%c", 'a'+i);
    if ((fd=open(device_string, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) < 0) {
	continue;
    }
    switch ('a'+i) {
	case 'a':
	    major=3;minor=0;
	    break;
	case 'b':
	    major=3;minor=64;
	    break;
	case 'c':
	    major=22;minor=0;
	    break;
	case 'd':
	    major=22;minor=64;
	    break;
	.....
    }

etc.... to detect the available ide devices without groveling
through /proc/ide?

 -Erik

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