> In Alessandro Rubini's book Linux Device Driver(Second
> Edition), Chatper 12
Alessandro and...um...some other guy...:)
> he said that "By accessing the
> fields in the request structure, usually by way of
> CURRENT" and "CURRENT is just a pointer into
> blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue". I know CURRENT is
> just a macro. Where can I find the definition of this
> macro?
A little grepping in the source would give you the answer there. It's in
.../include/linux/blk.h.
> I just don't know how to get the struct request from
> the request_queue(a request_queue_t struct). CURRENT
> points to which field in the
> blk_dev[MAJOR_NR].request_queue? Thank you very much.
CURRENT is one way. There's also functions like blkdev_entry_next_request
(also described in that chapter) that will pull a request off the queue for
you, if that's what you need.
Note that all this stuff has changed quite a bit in 2.5.
jon
Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net
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