Re: Can the kernel access /?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 13:35:33 EST

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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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