Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2003 11:53:09 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: missing get_empty_inode() |
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Ralf Oehler wrote: > Hello, list > > Currently I'm porting my driver sources from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 an I noticed > the absence of get_empty_inode(). > I didn't find an exported function to get a sb-less inode.
There is none. Inodes must have superblocks associated to them.
> My goal is to open sd- and an sg- devices in order to do > ioctl(send_scsi_cmd) on them. As my driver acts as a block device driver > (layered pseudo block device), there is no sb assigned to it. > > What is, according to the current philosophy, the cleanest code-sniplet to > > - open > - ioctl > - close > > an sd-device ? > an sg-device ?
open it from userspace.
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