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

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Message-Id: <20060929123737.ec613178.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:37:37 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Roger Gammans <roger@...puter-surgery.co.uk>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fs/bio.c - Hardcoded sector size ?

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:19:46 +0100 Roger Gammans wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:11:57PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I don't know if or where it is documented.
> 
> Well, I've spend a good chunk of time reading round this part of
> the kernel's interfaces without spotting it so another note somewhere
> can't help.
> 
> > You can submit a patch for it.
> > If you don't, I'll put it in my todo queue.
> 
> If I find an approriate place to put such a note I'll add it and
> submit a patch, but I'm not sure where to put it , atm.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Hm, I looked thru fs/bio.c and block/*.c and Documentation/Docbook/*.tmpl.
The best place that I see to put it right now is in
include/linux/bio.h, struct bio, field: bi_sector.

What do you think of that?
---
~Randy
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