copy_from_user problem

Clemens Koller clemens.koller at anagramm.de
Thu Aug 11 21:02:32 EST 2005


Hi, Murahari!

> I am working on a character driver for reading and writing the registers to FPGA 
> in our system.

You didn't tell much about your system.
But checkout the examples in the book "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition".
(http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/)
which is worth buying, too!

You might be missing some simple __user casts for your data
structures you want to copy...
And you might need to ioremap the memory area of your fpga or whatever
you need to access.

> epc  : 8011f774    Tainted: GF
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
And you might end up with less support here if you use a tainted Kernel.

Greets,

Clemens Koller
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