linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:43:59 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com, neilb@...e.de,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 13:22 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:04:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Given an fd on a block device, returns a string like
> >
> >       /block/sda/sda1
> >
> > which can be used to find related information in /sys.
> >
> > Ideally we should have an ioctl that works on char devices as well,
> > but that seems far from trivial, so it seems reasonable to have
> > this until the latter can be implemented.
> 
> What did you do to address Viro's reasonable rejection of this when
> it came up last time?

What was the objection?

My search only came up with a discussion about possibly making this a
generic capability for all devices:
http://marc.info/?t=118646704500006&r=1&w=2

Regards,
Dan

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