re:Re: how do i write a file in soft irqs

[kanishk rastogi <kanishk_rastogi85@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:16:41PM +0530, pradeep singh wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> [snip]
> >Please search both the kernelnewbies and linux-kernel mailing list
> >archives for why you should *not* write to files from the kernel - it
> >has been discussed to death several times over.
> Agreed it is not a best of the ideas to write to a file from kernel space.

Not the best? No, how about "not allowed at all".

> But at time you may face such situations.

No, there are lots of other ways to solve such a "situation".

> How can we handle it?

Exactly why do you feel you have to write to a file? What are the
requirements that you are being told?

By me-----> we are to virtualize a tape device so the read and the write command comming from the SCSI mid layer into the queuecommand function (which is called in the soft irq context) into a file.........

thanks,

greg k-h

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