Re: /sys/block [was: [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Get name for block devicein sysfs]

[Michael Tokarev]

Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:29 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> []
>>> How to distinguish char devices from block devices in sysfs?
>>> Is the only way to read a symlink `subsystem' in the device
>>> directory?
>> By its subsystem value (block), from the symlink, from the environment,
>> or from $1.
> 
> Environment and $1 comes as arguments for hotplug helper, not
> when scanning /sys/.

By the way, that's one of reasons I asked about useful content
in uevent files (but failed to provide a patch so far ;).
In 2.6.23, those files ARE readable finally, but doesn't
contain much info yet.

/mjt
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