In my last post I had posted a link to a *.tar.gz file containing the source code to both a very generic Linux RAM disk module that I wrote for the Linux 2.6.26.x kernel (was tested on Fedora 8 and Debian 5.0.1) and the source to a single purpose user binary that obtains the total device block count (no. of sectors) via an ioctl() and also performs some write(), lseek() and read() operations.This way, if the user were to monitor the /var/log/messages file they would see exactly where the process is in the driver code (I had placed many printk() messages for learning and tracking purposes).

I had made some updates to the device driver. The updates are so minor that the revision level of the driver incremented from 0.1 to 0.1.1. The updates are as follows: