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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:15:36 +0000
To: "chandrasekhar.nagaraj" <chandrasekhar.nagaraj@patni.com>
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Subject: Re: Path Name to kdev_t
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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:

/*
 * Convert a device path to a kdev_t.
 */
static int lookup_device(const char *path, kdev_t *dev)
{
	int r;
	struct nameidata nd;
	struct inode *inode;

	if (!path_init(path, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd))
		return 0;

	if ((r = path_walk(path, &nd)))
		goto out;

	inode = nd.dentry->d_inode;
	if (!inode) {
		r = -ENOENT;
		goto out;
	}

	if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
		r = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
	}

	*dev = inode->i_rdev;

 out:
	path_release(&nd);
	return r;
}
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