Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:43:55 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Calculating kernel logical address .. |
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On Mon, Sep 09 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2002 21:40, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We need a general-purpose "read or write these pages to this blockdev" > > library function. > > I thought bio was supposed to be that. In what way does it not suffice? > Simply because of not having a suitable wrapper?
a bio _can_ hold a number of pages, it's just that noone has written the bio_rw_pages() yet. Not that it would be hard...
-- Jens Axboe
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