Re: Path Name to kdev_t

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:10:12 -0500 (EST)


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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