Accessing file from drivers

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Mar 16 01:04:31 EST 2001


In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103151822090.9108-100000 at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
>
>   Is it possible to read and write to files (say /etc/xyz)
> in a device driver without resorting to user space?  I want

You do not want to do this. It's bad design. Implement an ioctl() for
the configuration, and use that.

Wolfgang Denk

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