* Vendor info from device name
@ 2009-05-09 0:16 Robert Mykland
2009-05-09 4:34 ` Greg KH
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From: Robert Mykland @ 2009-05-09 0:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hi Folks,
I am inside a file system driver, a modified version of vfat to be
exact, trying to get vendor info that uniquely identifies a USB storage
device that's associated. I have the device name coming into
vfat_get_sb(). I looked down through the associated structures I get
here but nothing obvious pops out. What's the best way to get down to
the vendor/unique device info from here? Thanks in advance for your
help and apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
Regards,
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* Re: Vendor info from device name
2009-05-09 0:16 Vendor info from device name Robert Mykland
@ 2009-05-09 4:34 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <4A086CF8.3000503@ascenium.com>
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From: Greg KH @ 2009-05-09 4:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Mykland; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 05:16:01PM -0700, Robert Mykland wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am inside a file system driver, a modified version of vfat to be
> exact, trying to get vendor info that uniquely identifies a USB storage
> device that's associated. I have the device name coming into
> vfat_get_sb(). I looked down through the associated structures I get
> here but nothing obvious pops out. What's the best way to get down to
> the vendor/unique device info from here? Thanks in advance for your
> help and apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
Do this from userspace, with the tools provided in the udev package,
vol_id and friends.
Why would you want to do this within the kernel?
thanks,
greg k-h
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* Re: Vendor info from device name
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@ 2009-05-11 19:28 ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2009-05-11 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Mykland; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:22:48AM -0700, Robert Mykland wrote:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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
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