On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:16 -0800, Arun Srinivasan wrote: > I am passing a "char*" which is an string that represents an address > of type "long" from user space to kernel space. So in kernel space how > can I convert this string into the actual type "long" ? I am assuming > there is no (long)atoi() in kernel. there is simple_strtoull -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/