RE: Flash Media block driver problem!

[Jinu M.]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:13, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 12:47 schrieb Jinu M.:
> > cool; linux can use a GPL driver for such things...
> >
> > [jinum] guess the question/clarification is not clear!
> > This is a driver for our own controller (PCI). Which is a PCI based
> > card.
> > This card is not based on the SCSI or IDE interface so how will some
> > other driver work for it unless we write ( or get it written sharing our
> > hardware spec) a driver for the interface?
>
> It will not work. A block driver must be written for such hardware to make
> it work.

Hmm, they are willing to release specs... that's good.

[Jinum]
This going way off from the original question...

* NO SPECS * will be out ;)

I was just trying to prove how the existing drivers will not work for our controller unless of course we release the driver we are writing :)

Guess the problem is not well framed, sorry about my English.
Someone who has worked on a block driver would answer it straight away.. 

-Jinu
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