RE: Question about file I/O in device driver kernel module

Benjamin Scott (dragonhawk@iname.com)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:43:52 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 2. If the microcode is going to chnage often, you could add an ioctl for
> inserting the microcode, which an accompanying user-mode program to read it
> from disk and pass it to the ioctl.

Alternatively, you could have two device files. One for device I/O, and one
for loading microcode. Then a simple "cat microcode > /dev/mydev" would
suffice.

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Benjamin Scott
dragonhawk@iname.com




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