On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 03:58:28PM +0530, Pranay Srivastava wrote: > > I don't see req->buffer. Which version you are using? You're absolutely right. Both [1] and [2] seems to be outdated. I'm currently compiling and testing most of my code on a 3.19 on a 14.04 LTS ubuntu in a VM, rather than the actual kernel. It's simpler for me to work that way. [1] https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3/blob/master/sbull/sbull.c#L119 [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt [...] > > If this is a memory backed block driver, then perhaps you can handle > multiple requests[?]. I don't think you need > to actually break up the same request into multiple requests. Actually, it is a shared memory based. Hence, a request might larger than the available room in the shared memory. This case has to be handled. Thanks for your input! -- François _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
