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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0901110738550.21183@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:47:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To: Jose Luis Marchetti <joseluismarchetti@...oo.com.br>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: your mail
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
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