On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:06:18PM -0700, kanishk rastogi wrote: > > > 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......... Is this some wierd school assignment? Just use a character device and stream the data out of that to userspace. good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
