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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

  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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