Re: your mail

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jose Luis Marchetti wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to open/read/write/close a regular file from my device
> driver.

That's probably a bad idea and what you really want to do is use procfs, 
sysfs, debugfs, relayfs, module parameters or similar.

Take a look here: 
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad 


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