.\" 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 "DO_LO_SEND_DIRECT_WRITE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME do_lo_send_direct_write \- helper for writing data to a loop device .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int do_lo_send_direct_write (struct loop_device * \fIlo\fB, struct bio_vec * \fIbvec\fB, int \fIbsize\fB, loff_t \fIpos\fB, struct page * \fIpage\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIlo\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .TP \fB\fIbvec\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .TP \fB\fIbsize\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .TP \fB\fIpos\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .TP \fB\fIpage\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP .PP This is the fast, non-transforming version for backing filesystems which do not implement the address space operations prepare_write and commit_write. It uses the write file operation which should be present on all writeable filesystems.