Ahmed, inode->i_bdev will give you block_device for any opened device file, since during open file->dentry->inode association has already been made. Thanks, Vinod On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 Ahmed A wrote : >Hello, > >I am trying to find the corresponding block_device >struct for a certain block device (e.g. /dev/hda) in >2.6. Is there a way I can find the association. > >If not, can someone suggest some code, by which give a >block device name (e.g. hda), I can find out it's >corresponding block_device struct. I was thinking of >one approach - "open" the block devive, get a file >pointer back, and from that obtain the block_device >pointer. Any code sample or pointers would be highly >appreciated. > >Regards, >Ahmed. > > > > >_______________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! >http://vote.yahoo.com > >-- >Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. >Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ >FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ >
