Re: [PATCH v6 02/16] chardev: introduce cdev_get_by_path()

Sagi Grimberg
2019-07-25T19:05:53Z

>>> NVMe-OF is configured using configfs. The target is specified by the
>>> user writing a path to a configfs attribute. This is the way it works
>>> today but with blkdev_get_by_path()[1]. For the passthru code, we need
>>> to get a nvme_ctrl instead of a block_device, but the principal is the same.
>>
>> Why isn't a fd being passed in there instead of a random string?
>
> I suppose we could echo a string of the file descriptor number there,
> and look up the fd in the process' file descriptor table ...

Assuming that there is a open handle somewhere out there...

> I'll get my coat.

Grab mine too..