accessing static device functions or file operations from a module

[David Wuertele <dave-gnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have written a module for the purpose of writing to an MTD device.
I would like my module to call the "mtd_write()" function found in
drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c, but it is declared static.

I know the mtd_write() can be called by opening a device (eg.
/dev/mtd/4) from userspace and calling write() on it -- the
file_operations dispatch table passes control to mtd_write().  But I
don't know how to use this from a module.

Is it possible to just open() and write() to a device from a module?

Thanks,
Dave


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