From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: External compilation
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:05:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020610200542.GB3508@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020609142602.GA77496@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:26:02PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
>
> On a related note, is it at all possible to make a "mini filesystem"
> that will work on 2.2 upwards, so I can avoid proc,sysctl, and ioctl ?
Take a look at drivers/usb/inode.c in the 2.2 kernel. Yes it's ugly,
but seems to be the only way to do it on 2.2. It also will work on 2.4
and 2.5. For 2.4/2.5 it's _much_ easier to make a "mini filesystem".
See libfs on 2.5, or the pci_hotplug code in 2.4 for examples of this.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-10 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-09 14:26 External compilation John Levon
2002-06-10 11:15 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-06-10 14:31 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-06-10 15:12 ` John Levon
2002-06-10 15:34 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-06-10 20:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
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