On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:33, Seb wrote: > How can I access the filesystem from a kernel module ? > In fact, I want my device driver to retreive a firmware image stored on the > filesystem (instead of putting the firmware data in a static array at > compile-time) for memory usage and legal concerns. Blocking calls are OK. > I have searched the manpages and the web, but I haven't found anything > relevant.
if_ndis does this (well ndis) to load firmware images from the file system for drivers. I wonder if it would make sense to generalise it - the ndis code covers things like building the firmware image into the kernel for cases where you are NFS mounting your disks (for example). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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