.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "SUBMIT_BIO" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME submit_bio \- .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int submit_bio (int \fIrw\fB, struct bio * \fIbio\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIrw\fB\fR whether to READ or WRITE, or maybe to READA (read ahead) .TP \fB\fIbio\fB\fR The &struct bio which describes the I/O .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP \fBsubmit_bio\fR is very similar in purpose to \fBgeneric_make_request\fR, and uses that function to do most of the work. Both are fairly rough interfaces, \fIbio\fR must be presetup and ready for I/O.