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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:10:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Path Name to kdev_t
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:

> 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:

No, it really shouldn't.  You should _NOT_ mess with kdev_t - use real
objects instead.

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