Arjan van de Ven wrote:
once upon a time it was thought a needed evil to do system calls from kernel space... but now a nice workaround has been found (in 2.6) and it's no longer needed, so the evil hack is going away.
What exactly is that work-around?
I'm a little confused about making system calls from kernel space. Let's take sys_read() for example. Why can I just call sys_read() directly from my module?
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