On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:46:35PM -0500, Brad Parker wrote: > Shouldn't someone point out that having a driver read a file is > very, very wrong and a classic FAQ question? It is. > Perhaps I'm mistaken but this seems to come up once a year on every port > list I'm on. I think it's the first time on this list. In my previous posting I suggested request_firmware for 2.4.23 / 2.6. For kernels older than this I suggest arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c as an example for how to easily implement a character special file. > Resist the temptation to put code in the driver to access the file > system. Amen. > ps: isn't hotplug already setup to notice when a device comes up and to > have a shell script run? it's bad enough that the hotplug code runs a > shell script from the kernel. I can't believe that got through... > > (and if you have time, go read the plan 9 design docs. then ask yourself > what those guys would do :-) 2.6 certainly is quite a bit more plan 9-ish. What would you expect from Al Viro :-) Ralf
