1. NAME▲

__bread - reads a specified block and returns the bh

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

struct buffer_head * __bread(struct block_device *  bdev , sector_t  block , unsigned  size );

3. ARGUMENTS ▲

bdev
    the block_device to read from

block
    number of block

size
    size (in bytes) to read

4. DESCRIPTION ▲

Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. It returns NULL if the block was unreadable.

5. COPYRIGHT ▲