Re: Layered Driver Support in Linux ?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 Aug 2002 20:53:12 +0100
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 19:16, Tom Sanders wrote:
> Does Linux support layered drivers ?
>
> I want to write a driver that will take requests from
> the applications and will pass them on to underlying
> SD disk driver. For this I need to map open, close,
> read, write, ioctl etc entry points to corresponding
> functions of the underlying driver.
Two examples we have are
loop - maps a file as a device
md - a software implemented raid layer
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