Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2002 12:21:39 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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On Wed May 08, 2002 at 01:18:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > I can't speak directly for the Kudzu maintainer but I can say that having > a sane way to obtain the list of ide devices (all of them not just non > pcmcia) and the device bindings/type has been a long standing request.
Can't one simply do something like:
char device_string[20]; int i, type, major=0, minor=0; for(i=0; i<26; i++) { snprintf(device_string, sizeof(device_string), "/dev/hd%c", 'a'+i); if ((fd=open(device_string, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) < 0) { continue; } switch ('a'+i) { case 'a': major=3;minor=0; break; case 'b': major=3;minor=64; break; case 'c': major=22;minor=0; break; case 'd': major=22;minor=64; break; ..... }
etc.... to detect the available ide devices without groveling through /proc/ide?
-Erik
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