Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-11-17 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 24 October 2011, J Freyensee wrote: On 10/24/2011 05:32 AM, Shashidhar Hiremath wrote: Hi Arnd, As explained in previous mail, the IOCTL is actually an inteface to block layer and it is only expecting read/write commands to be sent through the interface.The prrof of it can be

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-24 Thread Shashidhar Hiremath
Hi Arnd,   As explained in previous mail, the IOCTL is actually an inteface to block layer and it is only expecting read/write commands to be sent through the interface.The prrof of it can be seen in write_flag present in the IOCTL structure which indicates the either the command can be read or a

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Mon, Oct 24 2011, Shashidhar Hiremath wrote: As explained in previous mail, the IOCTL is actually an inteface to block layer and it is only expecting read/write commands to be sent through the interface.The prrof of it can be seen in write_flag present in the IOCTL structure which

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-24 Thread J Freyensee
On 10/24/2011 05:32 AM, Shashidhar Hiremath wrote: Hi Arnd, As explained in previous mail, the IOCTL is actually an inteface to block layer and it is only expecting read/write commands to be sent through the interface.The prrof of it can be seen in write_flag present in the IOCTL structure

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-21 Thread Shashidhar Hiremath
Message - From: Shashidhar Hiremath shashidh...@vayavyalabs.com To: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org, J Freyensee james_p_freyen...@linux.intel.com, John Calixto john.cali...@modsystems.com, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:09:00 AM Subject: A question on IOCTL interface

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-20 Thread Andrei Warkentin
: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC Hi , I am planning to use the existing IOCTL interface for SD/MMC present in the kernel. Since, the IOCTL interface expects a read/write flag and the MMC IOCTL is actually an interface to block layer I feel without modifying the block layer

Re: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-20 Thread Shashidhar Hiremath
...@laptop.org, J Freyensee james_p_freyen...@linux.intel.com, John Calixto john.cali...@modsystems.com, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:09:00 AM Subject: A question on IOCTL interface for MMC Hi ,   I am planning to use the existing IOCTL interface for SD/MMC

A question on IOCTL interface for MMC

2011-10-19 Thread Shashidhar Hiremath
Hi , I am planning to use the existing IOCTL interface for SD/MMC present in the kernel. Since, the IOCTL interface expects a read/write flag , and the MMC IOCTL is actually an interface to block layer I feel without modifying the block layer for the support of non-read write commands ,I may