linux-kernel - Re: Vendor info from device name

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Message-ID: <20090511192827.GA19776@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 12:28:27 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Robert Mykland <robert@...enium.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vendor info from device name

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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