Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Layered Driver Support in Linux ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 Aug 2002 20:53:12 +0100 |
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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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