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To: Venkat Raghu <venkatraghu2002@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: newbie...
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:02:18 -0700
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Venkat Raghu wrote:
> 
> Hi
>           For dumping kernel image "brw_kiovec" is
> used. But I think that "brw_kiovec" is only for block
> devices. So what about chararcter devices? Which
> interface I should use??
> 
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>             Thank You
>             Raghu
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What kind of character devices?  Right now, we don't have
anything specified, and won't until post 4.0.  Then we'll
add in a dump() function pointer to block_device_operations.
You're saying you want one for character devices as well?
Seems to make sense to do, I don't see a problem with it
right away.

--Matt

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