On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:58 -0700, Hanson, Jonathan M wrote: > I'm trying to write to a file with the O_DIRECT flag from a > kernel module in a 2.4 series of kernel on x86 hardware. I've learned > that the O_DIRECT flag requires that the amount of data written and the > file offset pointer must be multiples of the underlying "block size."
ehhh why are you writing to a file from a kernel module? That's generally considered a really bad idea.... [Jon M. Hanson] For what I'm doing I have no other choice but to write to a file from my kernel module. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
