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| author | Alexander Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> | 2003-04-27 03:47:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com> | 2003-04-27 03:47:21 -0700 |
| commit | 80e96b51bbd4cd4a10402fe4a274bfb105057e06 (patch) | |
| tree | ee57194cf6d5de0d285966d56e81cd1e7c73d3ab /include | |
| parent | 259f529f1f956cf9e87a32bd25d5ee5be4829f2d (diff) | |
[PATCH] open_by_devnum()
New helper - open_by_devnum(). Opens block_device by device number;
for use in situations when we really have nothing better than dev_t (i.e.
had received it from stupid userland API).
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 9b1e07ff267b..26aa1bd539f1 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ extern void bd_forget(struct inode *inode); extern void bdput(struct block_device *); extern int blkdev_open(struct inode *, struct file *); extern int blkdev_close(struct inode *, struct file *); +extern struct block_device *open_by_devnum(dev_t, unsigned, int); extern struct file_operations def_blk_fops; extern struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops; extern struct file_operations def_chr_fops; |