* missing get_empty_inode()
@ 2003-05-09 9:27 Ralf Oehler
2003-05-09 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Oehler @ 2003-05-09 9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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Hello, list
Currently I'm porting my driver sources from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 an I noticed
the absence of get_empty_inode().
I didn't find an exported function to get a sb-less inode.
My goal is to open sd- and an sg- devices in order to do
ioctl(send_scsi_cmd) on them. As my driver acts as a block device driver
(layered pseudo block device), there is no sb assigned to it.
What is, according to the current philosophy, the cleanest code-sniplet to
- open
- ioctl
- close
an sd-device ?
an sg-device ?
Currently (2.4.18), I do it like
open-sd:
dummy_inode = get_empty_inode();
init_special_inode( dummy_inode,
S_IFBLK | 0600,
kdev );
dummy_inode->i_bdev = bdev;
dummy_inode->i_dev = dummy_inode->i_rdev;
insert_inode_hash(dummy_inode);
close-sd:
def_blk_fops.release(dummy_inode, &dummy_filp);
ioctl-sd:
ioctl_by_bdev(dummy_inode->i_bdev, cmd, arg);
open-sg:
dummy_inode = get_empty_inode();
init_special_inode( dummy_inode,
S_IFCHR | 0600,
kdev );
dummy_inode->i_dev = dummy_inode->i_rdev;
dummy_dentry.d_inode = dummy_inode;
ret = init_private_file( dummy_file,
dummy_dentry,
FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE ); /* calls open() */
insert_inode_hash(dummy_inode);
close-sg:
dummy_file->f_op->release(dummy_inode, dummy_file);
fops_put(filp->f_op);
filp->f_dentry = NULL;
dummy_inode->i_state |= I_FREEING;
clear_inode(dummy_inode);
dummy_inode = NULL;
ioctl-sg:
filp->f_op->ioctl( dummy_inode, filp, cmd, arg );
Regards,
Ralf
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* Re: missing get_empty_inode()
2003-05-09 9:27 missing get_empty_inode() Ralf Oehler
@ 2003-05-09 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2003-05-09 10:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ralf Oehler; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Ralf Oehler wrote:
> Hello, list
>
> Currently I'm porting my driver sources from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 an I noticed
> the absence of get_empty_inode().
> I didn't find an exported function to get a sb-less inode.
There is none. Inodes must have superblocks associated to them.
> My goal is to open sd- and an sg- devices in order to do
> ioctl(send_scsi_cmd) on them. As my driver acts as a block device driver
> (layered pseudo block device), there is no sb assigned to it.
>
> What is, according to the current philosophy, the cleanest code-sniplet to
>
> - open
> - ioctl
> - close
>
> an sd-device ?
> an sg-device ?
open it from userspace.
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