On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 12:50, Sudharsan Vijayaraghavan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am a new bee to linux internals.
> I am trying to make a simple program witch will call a function from a
> module. I made a module compiled it and INSMOD-it into kernel, that works
> fine. I would like to call from my user program a function defined in my
> kernel module.
You never call functions directly from user-mode. You generally use a
syscall to interface between user-mode and kernel-mode. Most drivers
implement operations that map via these syscalls (i.e.
open/close/read/write etc).
What exactly are you trying to achieve?
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