Re: Sys calls inside a driver

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 12:32:08 EST

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Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> I'm writing drivers for a 2.0.38 based system and have following question:
> Is it safe to make a sys_xxx calls inside an dirver->open routine for
> example.

Generally, it should be perfectly fine... Though if you catch yourself
doing this, ask yourself if it would be possible to accomplish the task
in userspace instead of kernel space.

Jeff

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