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

[Dan Williams]

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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