Re: Using ioctl from with the kernel ???

Hi Stephan,

Your right IOCTL is not applicable for this. You can simply call the driver
functions directly. If these functions are called different from different
context(s) (like your driver and the IOCTL function) you have to add some
protection mechanism. (The code is not reentrant right?) You may try
spin_lock() for this job (linux/spinlock.h). If you are calling the
functions from interrupt contect too some extra protection is required...

Thanks for your reply.

But how could I call the ioctl handler of the driver?
I would need some (dummy) inode...

Steven

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