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Date:      Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:57:05 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "David Christensen" <dchrist@cox.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Driver Overview 
Message-ID:  <28318.1034089025@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:34:12 PDT." <B1154A80CE56844B9EA4F77FAD2BA951F5B7@hobbes.drc.dhs.org> 

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In message <B1154A80CE56844B9EA4F77FAD2BA951F5B7@hobbes.drc.dhs.org>, "David Ch
ristensen" writes:

>1) After completing step 6, is the disk usable (accessible through its
>device node)? 
>2) In the cdevsw structure for the drives, what do the physread and
>physwrite entries mean?

They point to generic routines which will do some tedious work and
call the driver back trhough the strategy routine.

>3) How do actual read/write requests make it to the device driver?

Which is the answer to this question: though the strategy
routine.

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