blk_get_backing_dev_info(9)

blk_get_backing_dev_info9

Get the address of a queue's backing_dev_info

Usage

struct backing_dev_info * blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device * bdev);

Arguments

bdev

device

Overview

Locates the passed device's request queue and returns the address of its backing_dev_info. This function can only be called if bdev is opened and the return value is never NULL.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.