linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char, block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor

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Message-ID: <ed10ee420804150008q27eaf88au27abf66e6731bbf7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:08:39 -0700
From:	"SL Baur" <steve@...acs.org>
To:	"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	neilb@...e.de, htejun@...il.com, hpa@...or.com, lkml@....ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char, block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor

On 4/14/08, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:13 PM, SL Baur <steve@...acs.org> wrote:
>  > On 4/14/08, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:

> Thanks for looking it over.  To be honest I was iffy about those
>  buffer sizes as well, and looking closer they are overkill.  Although,
>  they are smaller than the 32-byte buffer in bsg.c :-). 13-bytes is all
>  that is needed given a 12-bit major and 20-bit minor.  Care to send a
>  patch to fix up format_dev_t and print_dev_t?

O.K.  I'll look into it.  The call paths into format_dev_t are clear,
the ones into print_dev_t look a bit more global.

-sb
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