Re: help in block drivers

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Hi,

On 10/19/06, Rahul Theraja <rahul.theraja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
driver. I could not understand why the "sbd_request " is called even though
i have given only one read call from user space file.

Block device I/O transfer is done in blocks.

 And also in the driver, in the function sbd_request() how does the driver
get the parameters  like sector, current_nr_sectors and buffer.

VFS <-> SCSI <-> Block device?

i could move
furhter fastly.

Fastly? IMHO, learning kernel development involves lot of patience.

SK

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