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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: locking a device for exclusive use by userspace process (or kernel thread)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:11:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150304181105.GA13218@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425491944.3069.29.camel@opteya.com>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 06:59:04PM +0100, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a device and I have to write a driver that exposes the
> following three operations to kernel modules AND to userspace
> programs:

<snip>

Why?  What type of device is this?  And who is asking you to do this
homework assignment?

good luck,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-04 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04 17:59 locking a device for exclusive use by userspace process (or kernel thread) Yann Droneaud
2015-03-04 18:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-03-04 18:38   ` Yann Droneaud
2015-03-04 18:43     ` Greg KH
2015-03-04 18:50     ` Malte Vesper

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