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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 -- Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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