From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: JinuM <jinum@esntechnologies.co.in>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: open file in kernel mode
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:06:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509150612.GA7837@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF572D578398634881E52418B28925670EFF20@mail.esn.activedirectory>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:24:25AM +0530, JinuM wrote:
> I am trying to write a firmware loader driver. Instead of reading the
> firmware as a buffer(predefined array) we would like to read the firmware
> from a file (say /root/firmware). Do we have some function which reads the
> file contents in kernel mode.
This one seems a candidate for an faq ...
Provide some special file in /dev/ and use a small user application to
install the firmware by writing it into that file.
Ralf
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2003-05-09 5:54 open file in kernel mode JinuM
2003-05-09 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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