2.6 partition support driver methods

From: Mukund JB. (mukundjb_at_esntechnologies.co.in)
Date: 08/03/05

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    Dear all,

    I have a driver implemented to support single partition in 2.6 kernels.
    I have a requirement of supporting multiple partitions in my block driver to support flash media devices.
    I have modified the alloc_disk(1) to alloc_dosk(16) to support a MAX of 16 partitions. This way I have conveyed it to the kernel that 16 is my max n/o partitions. I also made a call to add_disk().

    Do I need to handle any thing in the request function to handle read/writes to the device partitions?
    Please suggest me the required implementation that I may be missing?

    Regards,
    Mukund Jampala
     

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