On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:16:23AM -0700, KrnlUsr wrote:
> have the core routines copy processed data back to
> kernel thread or user space with copy_to_user. or do i
> have to have some check saying if called from ioctl
> call copy_to_user otherwise call memcpy?
Why wouldn't you just let the core routines deal only w/ kernel memory
and only have your ioctl handler deal w/ copy_{to,from}_user?
John
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