Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262900AbUDANO7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:14:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262902AbUDANO7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:14:59 -0500 Received: from [202.125.86.130] ([202.125.86.130]:20143 "EHLO ns2.astrainfonets.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262900AbUDANO4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:14:56 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Flash Media block driver problem! X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:37:18 +0530 Message-ID: <1118873EE1755348B4812EA29C55A972176FD1@esnmail.esntechnologies.co.in> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Flash Media block driver problem! Thread-Index: AcQX6Y1TXuSz99paSCiTON3+VR/ExQAAClIA From: "Jinu M." To: "Denis Vlasenko" , "Oliver Neukum" , "Arjan van de Ven" Cc: , "Surendra I." Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 33 On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 12:47 schrieb Jinu M.: > > cool; linux can use a GPL driver for such things... > > > > [jinum] guess the question/clarification is not clear! > > This is a driver for our own controller (PCI). Which is a PCI based > > card. > > This card is not based on the SCSI or IDE interface so how will some > > other driver work for it unless we write ( or get it written sharing our > > hardware spec) a driver for the interface? > > It will not work. A block driver must be written for such hardware to make > it work. Hmm, they are willing to release specs... that's good. [Jinum] This going way off from the original question... * NO SPECS * will be out ;) I was just trying to prove how the existing drivers will not work for our controller unless of course we release the driver we are writing :) Guess the problem is not well framed, sorry about my English. Someone who has worked on a block driver would answer it straight away.. -Jinu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/