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Subject: Re: Can the kernel access /?
To: madmatt@bits.bris.ac.uk (Matt)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:35:33 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Can the driver pull the file from the filesystem if I were to pass the
> path of the file as an argument on loading the module?

Yes but its a bad idea. You dont want to force pathnames into the kernel

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