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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:42:14 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Michael Zhu <mylinuxk@yahoo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About block device request function.
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On Thu, Jan 10 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:
> Hi, I have a question of the block device request
> function. I use the following sentences to change the
> request function of a block device.
> 
> spin_lock_irq(&io_request_lock);
> 
> original_make_request_fn =
> blk_dev[i].request_queue.make_request_fn;
> 
> blk_dev[i].request_queue.make_request_fn =
> kti_make_request_fn;
> 
> spin_unlock_irq(&io_request_lock);
> 
> "i" is the major number of a block device.
> 
> You know blk_dev[] is the global block device array.
> When I use those sentences to change the floppy block
> device's request function, it works. The major number
> of the floppy disk is 2. But when I use the same one
> to change the hard disk's request function, it doesn't
> work. I found that the
> blk_dev[3].request_queue.make_request_fn is NULL. Does
> that mean that the make_request_fn() of the hard disk
> is NULL. I can't believe it. Can anyone give me an
> answer?

Read drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c:blk_get_queue() -- either a driver uses
the statically allocated per-major queue, or it provides its own and
defines a get_queue function to return it.

You are still heading in the wrong direction :/

-- 
Jens Axboe

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