From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759026AbZEKU5B (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 16:57:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754042AbZEKU4w (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 16:56:52 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:36421 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605AbZEKU4w (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 16:56:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:28:27 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Robert Mykland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Vendor info from device name Message-ID: <20090511192827.GA19776@kroah.com> References: <4A04CB41.3040008@ascenium.com> <20090509043422.GA13794@kroah.com> <4A086CF8.3000503@ascenium.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A086CF8.3000503@ascenium.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:22:48AM -0700, Robert Mykland wrote: > 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