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Subject: Going from struct disk to a fh?
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In the kernel, given a struct disk, is there a way to turn that into =
something that can be used to read/write from the disk? Or is my best =
bet in this situation to figure out the device path for the disk, and =
just use kern_open() to access it?

-Samrobb=