Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 02/16] chardev: introduce cdev_get_by_path() | From | Sagi Grimberg <> | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:05:29 -0700 |
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>>> NVMe-OF is configured using configfs. The target is specified by the >>> user writing a path to a configfs attribute. This is the way it works >>> today but with blkdev_get_by_path()[1]. For the passthru code, we need >>> to get a nvme_ctrl instead of a block_device, but the principal is the same. >> >> Why isn't a fd being passed in there instead of a random string? > > I suppose we could echo a string of the file descriptor number there, > and look up the fd in the process' file descriptor table ...
Assuming that there is a open handle somewhere out there...
> I'll get my coat.
Grab mine too..
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