Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:10:12 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Path Name to kdev_t |
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:19:16PM +0530, chandrasekhar.nagaraj wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In one of the part of my driver module , I have a path name to a device file > > (for eg:- /dev/hda1) .Now if I want to obtain the associated major number > > and minor number i.e. device ID(kdev_t) of this file what would be the > > procedure? > > I think this should be standard function, I'm sure lots of people are > duplicating this code. For 2.4 kernels:
No, it really shouldn't. You should _NOT_ mess with kdev_t - use real objects instead.
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