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From: Irfan Hamid <irfan_hamid@softhome.net>
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Subject: Re: Path Name to kdev_t
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in all functions of the driver where you will need the kdev_t (e.g.: the VFS 
layer hooks) you will receive either a struct inode* and/or the struct file* 
of the device file. the i_rdev member of struct inode is defined as the 
kdev_t of the particular device.

hope this helps.

regards,
irfan.

On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:49 pm, 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?
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Chandrasekhar
>
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