Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:21:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:21:02 -0500 Received: from relay03.cablecom.net ([62.2.33.103]:27161 "EHLO relay03.cablecom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:20:46 -0500 Message-Id: <200202051620.g15GKdH17123@mail.swissonline.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: lord latex Reply-To: llx@swissonline.ch To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: confused about block device behaviour Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:19:11 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi i've got written a block device driver for the 2.4.x kernel and it seems to work. but something looks strange to me. i've go a very simple application that does nothing more then open the block device, read 1024 byte and close the device. when i run this app. serveral times my do_request function gets called every time. why? i expect this block beeing buffered in the buffer cache. what do i don't see, or what is possibly wrong with my block device? thanks - 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/