Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:32:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: Access files from kernel |
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> 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
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