From: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: opening a charcter device without using filp_open()
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:29:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1BD36A.20503@shaolinmicro.com> (raw)
Hi all,
Is it possible to open a character device in kernel space without
actually openning the device file? Because I don't wan to hold the usage
count of a particular mount or dcache.
This is what I planned to do,
struct file fake_devfile = {0};
struct dentry fake_dentry = {0};
struct inode fake_inode = {0};
/* Link up fake file,dentry, inode */
fake_file.f_dentry=&fake_dentry;
fake_dentry.d_inode=&fake_inode;
Then I will call the f_op of the character device directly, please give
advice. Thanks.
regards,
David Chow
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