Re: [PATCH] Try to handle devices which live in a subdir of /dev properly (ie cciss)

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wednesday, April 01 2009, Hans de Goede said:
> diff --git a/storage/devices.py b/storage/devices.py
> index 32e4c23..4189eb4 100644
> --- a/storage/devices.py
> +++ b/storage/devices.py
> @@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ def get_device_majors():
>  device_majors = get_device_majors()
>  
>  
> +def devicePathToDeviceName(path):
> +    name = path[5:]
> +    if name.startswith("mapper/")
> +        name = name[7:]
> +
> +    return name

Would it make sense to have this as a method of the device rather than a
stand-alone function?  It looks like everywhere you're using it has a
device/partition

Jeremy