On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > >> Perhaps Greg will chime in. > > > > I've been waiting to see if sanity will take hold of anyone here. > .. > > So have we. sysfs is a total nightmare to extract information from > under program / script control. The idea presented in this thread, > is to have it cross-index the contents with a method that actually > makes it easy to access in many common scenarios, without requiring > huge gobs of code in user space. Or in kernel space. > > And it's not just a few 10s of lines of code currently, > but rather about 80-100 lines just to find the correct device subdir, > and *then* a few more 10s of lines of code to retrieve the value. Hmm, 100 lines? What else do you need? $ grep -l 8:3 /sys/class/block/*/dev /sys/class/block/sdc/dev Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
