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Re: set_fs

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:23, Brad Dickerson wrote:
> Hi,
>  I was not aware it was evil to call open from a kernel space module.
> Why? Should I use some other function to access the files on disk
> from kernel space? Need the persistence feature of disks in my
> module. thanks,

The more "proper" way to save state is to have a user-space program that 
can save/restore the state of your kernel module.  The sound mixer 
settings are handled this way..

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