From: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>
To: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:50:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <418169A7.3000308@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418162A6.80808@ece.northwestern.edu>
Lei Yang wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
...
>> Can you use read, write and seek system calls?
...
> Not really, as I've explained, I want to do all these stuff in kernel
> space. More specifically, I want to write a newbie kernel module. In
> this module, I'll do something with a raw block device (with no
> filesystem). For example, I want to do block I/O operations on ramdisk,
> and I want to set the block size of ramdisk to whatever value I want
> (power of 2 of course).
Pick up a copy of Linux Device Drivers by Rubini & Corbet (O'Reilly,
2001) and start with the example ramdisk block driver in chapter 12.
--
Todd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-28 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 18:19 set blksize of block device Lei Yang
2004-10-27 18:30 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 1:44 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 2:25 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 6:11 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 21:20 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 21:50 ` Todd Poynor [this message]
2004-10-28 6:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 16:35 ` Shesha B. Sreenivasamurthy
2004-10-28 21:04 ` Lei Yang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-28 3:34 Bijoy Thomas
2004-10-28 3:42 ` Lei Yang
2004-11-01 13:55 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-28 6:07 gopu.bhaskar
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