Re: Accessing a Struct in Kernel Memory from User Space via ioctl

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linux@microsoft.sucks.eu.org)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:29:00 +0200 (CEST)


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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