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Author: Patrice LAPORTE
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To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk, Charles Manning
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] How to find the name of a device given only a "yaffs_dev *" ?
Hi Charles,

You're right, param.name is a good choice, and it works.
Many thanks


>> Hello Patrice
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Patrice LAPORTE <
>> > wrote:


>> > Good morning to all of you J
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm looking for a way to retrieve the name of a device given a
>> > "yaffs_dev". I'm adding some information in a log about our various
>> > partitions on our hardware, and the function "yaffs_verify_blocks" is
>> > printing some information about blocks.
>> >
>> > But this function only prints without giving the name of the device, and
>> > sinceit's called 4 times because we have 4 partitions, I have 4 times the
>> > same kind of information but without the name of the corresponding
>> > partition.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > So, since the "yaffs_verify_blocks" as only a "yaffs_dev*" as a parameter
>> > I want to find a way to get the device name from it (in my case, I want to
>> > find the name of our 4 partition that are "/flash", "/data" etc.)
>> >
>>
>> There is some flexibility in how you connect things up, but normally dev->
>> param.name would dive a partition name.


>> If that does not work, we'll need to dig a bit deeper.


>> Regards


>> -- Charles