On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:23, Brad Dickerson wrote: > Hi, > I was not aware it was evil to call open from a kernel space module. > Why? Should I use some other function to access the files on disk > from kernel space? Need the persistence feature of disks in my > module. thanks, The more "proper" way to save state is to have a user-space program that can save/restore the state of your kernel module. The sound mixer settings are handled this way.. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/