Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932534AbVJDRp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:45:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932535AbVJDRp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:45:27 -0400 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:56761 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932534AbVJDRp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:45:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4342C007.6020809@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:46:47 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Drab CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4 in-kernel file opening References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 Martin Drab wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell me why there is no sys_open() exported in kernel/ksyms.c > in 2.4 kernels while the sys_close() is there? And what is then the > preferred way of opening files from within a 2.4 kernel module? Why do you need to open files from kernel space? There are usually better alternatives like the firmware loader interface. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/