From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: "Mukund JB." <mukundjb@esntechnologies.co.in>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 partition support driver methods
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:05:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050803190521.7544.qmail@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:53:01 +0530." <C349E772C72290419567CFD84C26E0170423A6@mail.esn.co.in>
> Do I need to handle any thing in the request function to handle
> read/writes to the device partitions?
It looks like you've done most of what you need; in 2.6, block drivers
need not worry about the details of partitioning.
Lots of details in the block drivers chapter of LDD3 if you need them:
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
jon
Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 14:23 Mukund JB.
2005-08-03 19:05 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2005-08-04 12:05 Mukund JB.
2005-08-04 14:39 ` Jonathan Corbet
2005-08-05 5:44 Mukund JB.
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