Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:29:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <> | Subject | Re: Accessing a Struct in Kernel Memory from User Space via ioctl |
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> I have a module that gets data from a PCI device and stores in into a > struct in kernel space. How would I go about accessing the information > contained in the struct via an ioctl call in user space? Or am I going > about this this wrong way? :-)
I'm not exactly an expert on kernel internals, but I'd say either use a device (/dev/whatever) or make the information obtained by your module available in the /proc filesystem. Both will do.
LLaP bero
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