In the docs section of kernelnewbies.com there is a procfs guide by Eirc Mouw that gives you what you need to write/reead to the procfs. On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, James S. Johnson wrote: > > Is there a description available of how to use proc_file_write? I have a > module in kernel 2.4.18 that uses the proc filesystem for output, and am > modifying it to read settings from proc. The (broken) algorithm that I am > using is: > > static ssize_t my_proc_file_write( > struct file *file, > const char *buffer, > size_t count, > loff_t *ppos ) > { > int len = <read data with scanf>; > printk( "Flag\n" ); > return( len ); > } > > which printk's "Flag" infinitely when I "echo 1 > /proc/my_proc_file". > > What is thre proper way to use proc_file_write? > > James > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/