Re: fs/bio.c - Hardcoded sector size ?

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:58:21 +0100 linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > from bio->bi_bdev->bd_block_size surely - or is some clever code
> > > where all block devices have to translate back to 512 byte sectors
> 
> > Does this answer it for you?
> 
> Ahh, Yup. 
> 
> Is this documented anywhere ? , I'd suggest a <para> in kernel-api.tmpl
> but I'm not sure this is the right place.

I don't know if or where it is documented.
You can submit a patch for it.
If you don't, I'll put it in my todo queue.

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~Randy
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