Hi, I am currently working on a block-device driver which implements a logical block device on top of a real block device. There are several examples showing how to write a block device driver and that seems straight-forward, however accessing the backing block device is causing me headache. I found the bio API to be quite complex for what I am trying to do - the old "buffer-head" API on the other hand seems to be almost undocumented. Is there another/simpler way to read/write block-devices in a synchronous manner? What I am looking is something like the read/write syscall functionality, however I would like to avoid using the syscall-code for overhead reasons. Thank you in advance, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
