From: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
To: chandrasekhar.nagaraj@patni.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Path Name to kdev_t
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:32:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD3C1FC.4060409@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 000101c28be4$9ff1bf20$e9bba5cc@patni.com
You would want to find a struct file * that represents the device (look
at fs/open.c in the sys_open calls, it shows how to convert a filename
to a file *) then look at file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_bdev->bd_dev. This
is the major/minor dev_t for the device.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
-steve
chandrasekhar.nagaraj wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In one of the part of my driver module , I have a path name to a device file
>(for eg:- /dev/hda1) .Now if I want to obtain the associated major number
>and minor number i.e. device ID(kdev_t) of this file what would be the
>procedure?
>
>Thanks and Regards
>Chandrasekhar
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 13:49 Path Name to kdev_t chandrasekhar.nagaraj
2002-11-14 15:20 ` Gianni Tedesco
2002-11-14 15:32 ` Steven Dake [this message]
2002-11-14 22:50 ` Irfan Hamid
2002-11-15 16:15 ` Joe Thornber
2002-11-15 16:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-15 18:10 ` Alexander Viro
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