Re: Path Name to kdev_t

[Steven Dake]

You would want to find a struct file * that represents the device (look 
at fs/open.c in the sys_open calls, it shows how to convert a filename 
to a file *) then look at file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_bdev->bd_dev.  This 
is the major/minor dev_t for the device.

Hope this helps.
Thanks
-steve
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?
>
>Thanks and Regards
>Chandrasekhar
>
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