From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: roger@computer-surgery.co.uk
Subject: Re: fs/bio.c - Hardcoded sector size ?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:11:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929121157.0258883f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060928185820.GB4759@julia.computer-surgery.co.uk>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:58:21 +0100 linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > from bio->bi_bdev->bd_block_size surely - or is some clever code
> > > where all block devices have to translate back to 512 byte sectors
>
> > Does this answer it for you?
>
> Ahh, Yup.
>
> Is this documented anywhere ? , I'd suggest a <para> in kernel-api.tmpl
> but I'm not sure this is the right place.
I don't know if or where it is documented.
You can submit a patch for it.
If you don't, I'll put it in my todo queue.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 18:22 Roger Gammans
2006-09-29 18:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-28 18:58 ` linux-kernel-owner
2006-09-29 19:11 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2006-09-28 19:19 ` Roger Gammans
2006-09-29 19:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-28 19:56 ` Roger Gammans
2006-09-29 20:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-29 20:22 ` Zach Brown
2006-09-29 20:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-29 17:25 ` Roger Gammans
2006-09-30 19:31 ` Jens Axboe
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