From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752332AbZAKGrW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:47:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751068AbZAKGrN (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:47:13 -0500 Received: from swampdragon.chaosbits.net ([90.184.90.115]:18515 "EHLO swampdragon.chaosbits.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751046AbZAKGrN (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:47:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:47:11 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Juhl To: Jose Luis Marchetti cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <204164.94418.qm@web34403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <204164.94418.qm@web34403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jose Luis Marchetti wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to open/read/write/close a regular file from my device > driver. That's probably a bad idea and what you really want to do is use procfs, sysfs, debugfs, relayfs, module parameters or similar. Take a look here: http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad -- Jesper Juhl http://personal.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html