On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:35:43 +0200 Jonathan Heusser <jonny@drugphish.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > How do I copy best a data structure which contains two or more linked > list heads (a la linux/list.h) plus > some other fields to kernelland? > Obviously a simple copy_from_user(new_struct, (struct my_struct*) data, > sizeof(struct my_struct)).. does > not work. Sure it does. You'll just have to serialize your list and everything it points to into a sequence of bytes. Then transfer the bytes and do the opposite. It's not a very elegant thing to "copy linked list stucts" around though. Mike -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
