* open file in kernel mode
@ 2003-05-09 5:54 JinuM
2003-05-09 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: JinuM @ 2003-05-09 5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mips
Hi,
Can anyone help me with this simple problem.
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.
-Jinu
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* Re: open file in kernel mode
2003-05-09 5:54 open file in kernel mode JinuM
@ 2003-05-09 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 2003-05-09 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: JinuM; +Cc: linux-mips
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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