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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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