On Thursday 20 of September 2012 21:58:17 Marek Vasut wrote:
Dear Pavel Herrmann,
This core will register all block devices (disk, cards, partitons) and provide unfied access to them, instead of current method with device + partition offset
Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann morpheus.ibis@gmail.com
Makefile | 1 + drivers/blockdev/Makefile | 42 ++++++++++++++++ include/dm/blockdev.h | 121
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 164 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/blockdev/Makefile create mode 100644 include/dm/blockdev.h
Why not use drivers/block/ ?
Because the drivers in drivers/block have a different purpose than blockdev. I would expect this question for blockctrl, there i just try to avoid confusion about being completely compatible
Pavel Herrmann