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Re: PCI Driver

I am trying to write kernel level driver.
If i understand right, i should use ioctl function to access my driver 
from user space. Actually  copy_to_user() and copy_from_user() is the 
prototype get_user() and put_user?

thanks



Sumit Agarwal wrote:

>Are u writing a user level driver or a kernel level driver?
>
>To have an access to the actual devices, you always need a
>kernel agent, otherwise you would be violating the
>protection law on the i386 architecture.
>
>You can use PCI function calls being in kernel only.
>
>To understand data interaction between kernel & user space
>explore copy_to_user() and copy_from_user()
>
>Thanks,
>Sumit
>



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