On 2010-01-15, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song <breadncup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --000e0cd1b072cdfb11047d2a32af > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > > Could somebody help me to understand the reason why the linux kernel does > not allow the access to a file in the device driver? For example, for > debugging purpose, if a device driver want to log some data in a file by > using open/write/read method like in user application, how a driver can > access to a file in a specific filesystem? Any comment or docs or web pages > would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Dan. > The kernel can run even without mounting any file system, and shouldn't rely on any fs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
