Re: Access files from kernel

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, accessing files on filesystem form kernel directly was no-go for a
> long time. What's the new rule here?

Oh, we've *always* accessed files from the kernel.

What we don't want is random drivers doing so directly and without a
good abstraction layer, because that just ends up being a total
nightmare.

Still, they've done that too. Ugh. Too many drivers having random
hacks like that.

            Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/