Aug. 9, 2021
10:43 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 14:54:26 -0500 Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not unalterably opposed to the idea, but I don't currently see a way to do that without resolving block devices (struct gendisk) by name, and that seems to be a no-no.
So a name like "sda1" is not viable? Why? What about "MAJOR:MINOR"? I confess that I am not very familiar with internal blkdev API. Quick look reveals that there is a struct block_device, containing a member bd_disk, which is a pointer to struct gendisk. What is the relationship between these two? Can there be a block device without a gendisk, for example? Marek