Re: [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Get name for block device in sysfs

2007-12-16 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 09:43 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Saturday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007 7:26 AM, NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Given an fd on a block device, returns a string like > > > > > > /block/sda/sda1 > > > > > > which can be us

Re: [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Get name for block device in sysfs

2007-12-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 7:26 AM, NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > As pointed out to w

Re: [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Get name for block device in sysfs

2007-12-15 Thread Kay Sievers
On Dec 14, 2007 7:26 AM, NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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