On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 06:33:21PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote:
|Dear All,
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|I developed a small prototype for the block driver as given in the 16th
|chapter of Alessandro Rubini book in 2.6.10 kernel and ported to
|2.6.16.9 kernel.
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|Everything works fine except the ioctl part. When I issue commands like
|mkfs.msdos and mkfs.vfat, the ioctl of the driver gets invoked in 2.6.10
|but not in the 2.6.16.9.
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|I did strace on the command mkfs.msdos and noticed that the application
|is issuing the 0x301 ioctl to the block layer which is returning with
|the following error:
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|"Inappropriate ioctl to the device"
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|This error in turn is resulting in mkfs.msdos error. The command says
|"unable to get the disk geometry"
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|Can any one provide a pointer about the usage of the above two commands
|in the 2.6.16.9 kernel.
I guess you could try kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx
You will get a much more technical and informative answer there.
Your question is very good, so I am damn sure someone will respond immediately.
Best of Luck!
regards,
Girish
