From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4 in-kernel file opening
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:46:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4342C007.6020809@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0510041924520.8210@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Martin Drab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell me why there is no sys_open() exported in kernel/ksyms.c
> in 2.4 kernels while the sys_close() is there? And what is then the
> preferred way of opening files from within a 2.4 kernel module?
Why do you need to open files from kernel space? There are usually
better alternatives like the firmware loader interface.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 17:27 2.4 in-kernel file opening Martin Drab
2005-10-04 17:34 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 17:41 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 17:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-04 17:41 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-04 17:55 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 17:59 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 18:01 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 18:11 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-04 18:28 ` Martin Drab
2005-10-04 22:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-10-04 17:46 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2005-10-04 18:26 ` Martin Drab
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