Re: 2.6 partition support driver methods

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 14:06:57 EST


> 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@xxxxxxx

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