Re: Basic doubt regarding block layer

2010-07-02 Thread ajit jain
sudheer wrote B. will the process be returned after scheduling the writing (say after passing the data to the elevator)? If this case is true, how would the process ensure that the data has been actually written on to the block device? To ensure the data hit the disk you need to pass O_SYNC

quilt patch management

2010-07-02 Thread Onkar Mahajan
Please help me with some detailed tutorial on Quit utility. -- A 1965 Ford Mustang is a great car. But if you want to go to the moon, I don't think that's the right vehicle. You'd better design a space craft. - Sunay Tripathi Distinguished

simulate a PCI hotplug event?

2010-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm starting to design a course in how to write a PCI driver, and i was looking for kernel support to simulate hotplugging PCI devices, and ran across drivers/pci/hotplug/fakephp.c, but that seems to refer to a legacy feature. is there a more current feature that lets me do this? thanks.