Re: [Gumstix-users] Character Device Drivers

[AKS <aun...@gm...>]

"User space" or "kernel space" driver for your character device driver?

On 3/28/12, Ben Johnson <mya...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>   I am writing a custom character device driver. When the open
> function is called in the kernel code I am looking to pull out some
> piece of unique information out of either the inode struct or the file
> struct that could then be used to identify during subsequent reads and
> writes.  Everything that I have tried to pull out so far has been
> zero.  Has anyone done this with success before?
>
> I am also open to the idea of setting something in the inode or file
> struct that will be preserved and could be read back during subsequent
> read and write calls.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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