On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:02 +0900, NAHieu wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a kernel module, and I want to access to the list of > block-devices. It seems the only way to do that is via all_bdevs. > Unfortunately, all_bdevs is a static variable, and doesn't get > exported. > > So how can I solve my problem? Hi, this is a highly "suspect" thing to want. For example, the locking and refcounting rules for what you want are unlikely to be possible at all. Now when I'm saying that that is just guesswork; you don't actually say what you want this for... however nothing in the kernel currently does this and that is a sign that something funky is going on, and also that the locking and refcounting may well get really nasty.. If you really have a good case for this, then it's not impossible to get this variable exported when you post the patch to merge your kernel into the kernel.org kernel... but you should have a really good explanation of why you need this, since again, it feels counter intuitive. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
