Regarding enumerating Block devices registered in kernel mode

Richard Weinberger richard.weinberger at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 03:08:54 EST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:24 AM, vaibhav <vaibhav92 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on a kernel module wherein I need to enumerate all the block
> devices registered with the kernel. Also looking for notifications when a
> block device gets added/remove. Google didn’t help much and the thought of
> reading the contents of /sys/block from kernel mode  looks messy to me.
> Looking for guidance on performing this enumeration.

Why do you need this within the kernel?
Sounds much like a userspace job done in kernel land...

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Thanks,
//richard



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