RE: Accessing file from drivers (fwd)

Hi Wolfgang,

     The exact problem that we're trying to solve, is to program
an FPGA with a hex file
which is in our file system.  But the problem is general is to
have a way to write  a
system  call  say 'sys_copy'  which will copy one file to
another.  An user-mode
application would read from one file and write back to another,
which would result in
copying  the data from the file driver ( kernel space ) to the
user-space,  and again
back to the kernel space.  We were curious as to whether a way
existed by which we can
do the read and write, sitting in the kernel space itself.

I don't know if I well understand the problem, but it seems to me that you
can use the mmap system call ...


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