Re: Calculating kernel logical address ..
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:43:55 +0200
On Mon, Sep 09 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 09 September 2002 21:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > We need a general-purpose "read or write these pages to this blockdev"
> > library function.
>
> I thought bio was supposed to be that. In what way does it not suffice?
> Simply because of not having a suitable wrapper?
a bio _can_ hold a number of pages, it's just that noone has written the
bio_rw_pages() yet. Not that it would be hard...
--
Jens Axboe
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/