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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:46:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: sankarshana rao <san_wipro@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Inode question
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Thx for the reply...
When I try to call lookup() from my kernel module, it
gives undefined symbol error during INSMOD..
any clues???

--- Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:39, sankarshana rao wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to call namei() function in order to derive
> an
> > inode from a path name. Can I do this inside a
> kernel
> > module???
> 
> >From a kernel module, you should probably call
> path_lookup().
> 
> Shaggy
> -- 
> David Kleikamp
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> 
> 



	
		
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