The article talks the sameway you are doing. So I dont think what you
wanted then??
raghu
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Haijin Yan wrote:
> Hi,
> I really appreciate for your help.
> Since I am not reading/writing within an interrupt, it is relative easy
> to do so and I've done it using filp_open() call. Following is my simple
> code which is from fs/exec.c:kernel_read()
> old_fs = get_fs();
> set_fs(get_ds());
> result = file->f_op->read(file, (caddr_t)addr, size, &pos);
> set_fs(old_fs);
> filp_close(file, NULL);
>
> I will check to see the system call ways there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Haijin
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> static void live(byte food, short sleep, const double work)
> { for(;;)
> future = NULL;
> }
> ---------------------
>
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
>
> >
> > Take a look at Making System Calls from kernel space at this site
> >
> > www.linux-mag.com/2000-11/gear_01.html
> >
> > You can call sys_read, sys_write directly from your module.
> >
> > HTH,
> > raghu
> >
> > On Thu, 1 May 2003, Haijin Yan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have this kernel module, when I unload it, I want to save some meta
> > > data to some place and read the meta in again when the next time I load
> > > the module again. Since meta are huge, I can not pass them as parameters.
> > > Coud I do kernel read/write file system? or any other ideas about how to
> > > do it?
> > >
> > > Any comments is highly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > -Haijin
> > >
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