Re: Why is the 'loff_t *offset' parameter in the file_operations'read function a pointer?

[Amit Ben Shahar]

> The read function must update the offset independent of the return value.
> See simple_read_from_buffer() as an example.

Thank you - that helped greatly and solved my problem.
Amit.
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