On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> How are folks supposed to open disk and tape devices from kernel modules
> without these? Not everything should be done in user space Al. If you
Normally - filp_open(). If all you want is ioctl on block device -
blkdev_get() + ioctl_by_bdev() + blkdev_put(). If you want it by
device _number_ - use bdget().
> remove blkdev_open I will not be able to properly increment the use
> count an a disk device I may be reading or writing to.
Yes, you will. And I would _really_ advice you to do that by
name instead of device number - that way you will avoid a lot of pain
couple of years down the road.
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