[parted-devel] [PATCH] Add support for NVDIMM devices
Phil Susi
psusi at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 3 12:50:14 UTC 2017
On 11/1/2017 8:35 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> My understanding is that this is the only way to tell what these new
> devices are, and we're already doing the same thing for nvme. It's
> limited by a couple of things:
>
> 1. Only blkext major's will be considered.
> 2. It's at the end of the if/else so SCSI, etc. have already been
> checked.
> 3. The filename path is canonicalized by ped_device_get before calling
> new() so internally we're always using the /dev/pmem name no matter
> what the symlink says.
What if someone mknods a differently named dev node rather than just
using a symlink? I would think there would be something in sysfs that
identifies the type of device more accurately than the name of the devnode.
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