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From: Alessandro Carminati <alessandro.carminati@gmail.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Cc: Alessandro Carminati <alessandro.carminati@gmail.com>,
	rpalethorpe@suse.com, acarmina@redhat.com
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] c-test-api: Documentation updated
Date: Wed,  2 Nov 2022 20:34:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221102203413.547089-3-alessandro.carminati@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221102203413.547089-1-alessandro.carminati@gmail.com>

Since the tst_find_backing_dev logic is changed, the doc is updated
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati <alessandro.carminati@gmail.com>
---
 doc/c-test-api.txt | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/c-test-api.txt b/doc/c-test-api.txt
index 64ee3397f..a7888c242 100644
--- a/doc/c-test-api.txt
+++ b/doc/c-test-api.txt
@@ -1071,8 +1071,11 @@ voud tst_find_backing_dev(const char *path, char *dev);
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This function finds the block dev that this path belongs to, it uses stat function
-to get the major/minor number of the path. Then scan them in '/proc/self/mountinfo'
-and list 2th column value after ' - ' string as its block dev if match succeeds.
+to get the major/minor number of the path. 
+This function finds the block dev that this path belongs to, it uses the unevent 
+file in sysfs to find the device name. It needs to discriminate between btrfs
+and not btrfs. For non btrfs filesystems it uses the minor, major numbers. For
+btrfs it uses the fs uuid.
 
 [source,c]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
2.34.1


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-02 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[LTP] [PATCH] Fix tst_find_backing_dev when no initramfs>
2022-10-26 14:04 ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] tst_find_backing_dev: fix stat fails /dev/root Alessandro Carminati
2022-10-26 14:04   ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] tst_find_backing_dev: Get dev name from /sys/dev/block/*/uevent Alessandro Carminati
2022-10-27  8:08     ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-10-27 18:58       ` Alessandro Carminati
2022-10-31 12:08         ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-10-31 16:57           ` Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-01  9:09             ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-02 20:34               ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] tst_find_backing_dev: fix stat fails /dev/root Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-02 20:34                 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] tst_find_backing_dev: Get dev name from /sys/dev/block/*/uevent Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-03  8:04                   ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-04  4:41                     ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] Fix tst_find_backing_dev adding BTRFS support and /dev/root missing case Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-04  4:41                       ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] tst_find_backing_dev: Get dev name from /sys/*/uevent Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-07  8:46                         ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-07 16:39                           ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] Fix tst_find_backing_dev adding BTRFS support and /dev/root missing case Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-07 16:39                             ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] tst_find_backing_dev: Get dev name from /sys/dev/block/*/uevent Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-08  9:39                               ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-09 19:38                                 ` [LTP] [PATCH v6 0/2] tst_find_backing_dev: fix stat fails /dev/root Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-09 19:38                                   ` [LTP] [PATCH v6 1/2] tst_find_backing_dev: Get dev name from /sys/dev/block/*/uevent Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-10 11:16                                     ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-09 19:38                                   ` [LTP] [PATCH v6 2/2] c-test-api: Documentation updated Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-10 11:29                                     ` Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-07 16:39                             ` [LTP] [PATCH " Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-04  4:41                       ` Alessandro Carminati
2022-11-07  8:12                       ` [LTP] [PATCH 0/2] Fix tst_find_backing_dev adding BTRFS support and /dev/root missing case Richard Palethorpe
2022-11-02 20:34                 ` Alessandro Carminati [this message]
2022-10-26 14:04   ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] c-test-api: Documentation updated Alessandro Carminati

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