blockdev-util: introduce block_device_new_from_fd() and block_device_new_from_path()

These are possible replacements of get_block_device(),
get_block_device_harder(), path_get_whole_disk(), and friends.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/blockdev-util.h b/src/shared/blockdev-util.h
index 1f612157fc..b2c14102ae 100644
--- a/src/shared/blockdev-util.h
+++ b/src/shared/blockdev-util.h
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@
 #define xsprintf_sys_block_path(buf, suffix, devno)                     \
         xsprintf(buf, "/sys/dev/block/%u:%u%s", major(devno), minor(devno), strempty(suffix))
 
+typedef enum BlockDeviceLookupFlag {
+        BLOCK_DEVICE_LOOKUP_WHOLE_DISK  = 1 << 0, /* whole block device, e.g. sda, nvme0n1, or loop0. */
+        BLOCK_DEVICE_LOOKUP_BACKING     = 1 << 1, /* fd may be regular file or directory on file system, in
+                                                   * which case backing block device is determined. */
+        BLOCK_DEVICE_LOOKUP_ORIGINATING = 1 << 2, /* Try to find the underlying layer device for stacked
+                                                   * block device, e.g. LUKS-style DM. */
+} BlockDeviceLookupFlag;
+
+int block_device_new_from_fd(int fd, BlockDeviceLookupFlag flag, sd_device **ret);
+int block_device_new_from_path(const char *path, BlockDeviceLookupFlag flag, sd_device **ret);
+
 int block_device_is_whole_disk(sd_device *dev);
 int block_device_get_whole_disk(sd_device *dev, sd_device **ret);