Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:52:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Request for new block_device_operations function pointer |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> This would allow projects such as LKCD to use a specific dump > device associated to a block device driver. This dump driver > writes data out directly to disk at a specific offset. The
... while submit_bh()... writes data out directly to disk at a specific offset. Amazing, isn't it?
Notice that you _will_ need to deal with IO in driver's queue, no matter how you implement the thing. submit_bh() already does it.
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