Hi,
Whenever there is a open on the device the operations corresponding to
your device are copied into the i-node at the VFS layer. Then any
subsequent requests are routed to your routines directly using the
requests. There is a open routine that you provide with your device that
gets called when there is a open on your device. You can do any
open-specific initializations here.
I guess this will solve the problem.
-Pradeep
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 mjoseph@hss.hns.com wrote:
> Subject: doubt regarding :Waking up the request function for Block device
> drivers??
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> I was going through the code in linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
> and had a doubt which i though someone could answer
>
> In a block device , The kernel maintains a global list of requests in
> blk_dev[MAX_BLKDEV]. The request handlers are initalized for a
> particular device by
> q->request_fn = rfn;
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> My question is how does the Kernel signal ("wake up") the appropriate
> driver that
> "now you have a request that you need to service"
>
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-Pradeep
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